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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Snowflake

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic 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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.exasol.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.openpie.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectExasolOpenPieSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2012200020132014
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.7.6, April 20242.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsuser defined functions
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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DatomicEXASOLInfluxDBPieCloudDBSnowflake
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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