DBMS > Altibase vs. EXASOL vs. Kdb vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EXASOL vs. Kdb vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

High performance Time Series DBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	7.70
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.exasol.com

kx.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.exasol.com/resources

code.kx.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Exasol

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1994

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.6, May 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Hadoop integration

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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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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