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DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgwww.exasol.comgeospock.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docswww.exasol.com/­resourceshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncExasolGeoSpockSAP, formerly SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2015200019942014
Current release3.1.0, July 20202.0, September 201916.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoHadoop integrationnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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