DBMS > EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. Google BigQuery vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. Google BigQuery vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.kinetica.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.firebolt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.kinetica.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Exasol

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Google

Kinetica

Microsoft

Initial release

2000

2020

2010

2012

1989

Current release

7.1, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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