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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. Trino vs. Yaacomo vs. YDB

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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

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Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.snowflake.com

trino.io

yaacomo.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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

ydb.tech/en/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Q2WEB GmbH

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2009

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Android
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

depending on connected data-source

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on connected data-source

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on connected data-source

Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

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

SQL standard access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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