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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#382	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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