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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. Graphite vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. Graphite vs. Spark SQL

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 ClickhouseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.firebolt.iographite.readthedocs.iospark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperExasolFirebolt Analytics Inc.Chris DavisApache Software Foundation
Initial release2000202020062014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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