DBMS > EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. HBase vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. HBase vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

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

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

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Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Exasol

Firebird Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2008

2014

2016

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

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

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PSQL

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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

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