DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.datomic.comwww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.datomic.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCognitectExasolIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20152012200020002014
Current release1.0.0, September 20231.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaJava, Clojure
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoincluded in appliancehosted
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyesuser defined functions
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesCData: Connect to Big Data & NoSQL through standard Drivers.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache PinotDatomicEXASOLNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMSnowflake
DB-Engines blog posts

Snowflake is the DBMS of the Year 2022, defending the title from last year
3 January 2023, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

Snowflake is the DBMS of the Year 2021
3 January 2022, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

StarTree broadly enhances Apache Pinot-based analytics platform
8 May 2024, SiliconANGLE News

StarTree Finds Apache Pinot the Right Vintage for IT Observability
8 May 2024, Datanami

Apache Pinot - SD Times Open Source Project of the Week
31 May 2024, SDTimes.com

Real-Time Analytics for Mobile App Crashes using Apache Pinot
2 November 2023, Uber

Open source Apache Pinot advances as StarTree boosts real-time analytics and observability
8 May 2024, VentureBeat

provided by Google News

Nubank buys firm behind Clojure programming language
28 July 2020, Finextra

Architecting Software for Leverage
13 November 2021, InfoQ.com

TerminusDB Takes on Data Collaboration with a git-Like Approach
1 December 2020, The New Stack

Brazil’s Nubank acquires US software firm Cognitect, creator of Clojure and Datomic
24 July 2020, LatamList

Zoona Case Study
16 December 2017, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

It's Back to the Database Future for Exasol CEO Tewes
26 October 2023, Datanami

Exasol Finds AI Underinvestment Leads to Business Failure, But Data Challenges Stall Rapid Adoption
20 March 2024, businesswire.com

Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities
26 February 2024, TechTarget

Mathias Golombek, Chief Technology Officer of Exasol – Interview Series
21 May 2024, Unite.AI

Exasol Unveils New Suite of AI Tools to Turbocharge Enterprise Data Analytics
22 February 2024, AiThority

provided by Google News

IBM announces availability of the high-performance, cloud-native Netezza Performance Server as a Service on AWS
11 July 2023, IBM

AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off
1 August 2023, The Register

Migrating your Netezza data warehouse to Amazon Redshift | Amazon Web Services
27 May 2020, AWS Blog

Netezza Performance Server
12 August 2020, IBM

IBM Brings Back a Netezza, Attacks Yellowbrick
29 June 2020, Datanami

provided by Google News

Lessons from the Ticketmaster-Snowflake Breach
12 June 2024, The Hacker News

Ticketmaster's Snowflake data breach was just one of 165
11 June 2024, The Verge

LendingTree confirms that cloud services attack potentially affected subsidiary
10 June 2024, The Record from Recorded Future News

Snowflake Hit With Data Breach - What's Going On?
6 June 2024, Yahoo Finance

Snowflake adopts open source strategy to grab data catalog mind share
3 June 2024, InfoWorld

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here