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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

Primary database model

Key-value 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	7.17
Rank	#51	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	140.60
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.47
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.snowflake.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

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