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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. Trino vs. WakandaDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

wakanda.github.io/doc

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Social network pages

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Wakanda SAS

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2012

2017

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

depending on used data model

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

depending on connected data-source

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on connected data-source

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on connected data-source

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

based on RocksDB

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

SQL standard access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantages

High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenarios

Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customers

Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics

33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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