DBMS > EXASOL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Google

acquired by Google 2014

IBM

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2012

2017

2015

2014

Current release

2.0

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

through the embedded Spark runtime

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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

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