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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. TDengine

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NameSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score140.60
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.47
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20142019
Current release3.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesno
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes
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SnowflakeTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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