DBMS > EXASOL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.42
Rank	#93	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#274	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#313	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	4.97
Rank	#76	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	15.53
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircomedge-iot-database

www.datajaguar.com

www.sap.com/products/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

www.datajaguar.com/support.php

help.sap.com/iq

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

FairCom Corporation

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

1979

2015

1994

2014

Current release

V3, October 2020

2.9.4 September 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

ANSI SQL queries

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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Specific characteristics

FairCom EDGE provides the power of a full-featured database that is designed specifically...
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SQL support, group by, order by, join
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Competitive advantages

Top Features JSON Multimodel SQL and NoSQL APIs Automatic database tuning Custom...
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Extremely easy to scale-out (in seconds) 100,000 times faster
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Typical application scenarios

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IoT data, time series data, AI data. Any type of numerical data.
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Key customers

UPS, Verizon, Motorola, CommVault, Thomson Reuters, ACI, BNY Mellon, Rockwell Automation,...
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Quantea, 2PiDay, Synqy, SinoLogistics, IIVI
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Market metrics

From banking and financial transactions, transportation, warehouse automation, package...
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Advertising awareness, installed base, brand image, market share
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Licensing and pricing models

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Free-trial license, per-node license, and subscription license.
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