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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J vs. TDengine

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Time Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.firebolt.iowww.geomesa.orgrdf4j.orggithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.firebolt.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperExasolFirebolt Analytics Inc.CCRi and othersSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20002020201420042019
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerdepending on storage layernoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
EXASOLFireboltGeoMesaRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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