DBMS > EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. HBase vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. HBase vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

FatCloud

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2012

2008

2010

2014

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via applications

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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

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