DBMS > Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Cognitect

Exasol

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2012

2000

2012

2014

2019

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

7.1, August 2021

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
» more

Competitive advantages

High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
» more

Typical application scenarios

TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
» more

Market metrics

TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
» more

News

Comprehensive Comparison Between TDengine and MongoDB
6 June 2024

Comprehensive Comparison Between TDengine and TimescaleDB
5 June 2024

Mastering Memory Leak Detection in TDengine
31 May 2024

Seamless Data Integration from MQTT and InfluxDB to TDengine
22 May 2024

Solving Long Query Performance Bottlenecks
22 May 2024

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.