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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. EXASOL vs. Galaxybase vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#69	Overall
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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2000

2017

2014

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

Role-based access control

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

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