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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. Vertica vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines 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.

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	11.40
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.vertica.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Exasol

FatCloud

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2000

2012

2005

2009

Current release

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via applications

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customers

Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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