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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 ClickhousePort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.firebolt.iosql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.firebolt.iosql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperExasolFirebolt Analytics Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release2000202020122018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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