DBMS > searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza vs. YottaDB

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

yanza.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Yanza

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2015

2014

2018

2015

2001

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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