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DBMS > Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. TerarkDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. TerarkDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.snowflake.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.Simer PlahaByteDance, originally TerarkQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release2014201820162009
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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