DBMS > EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. JaguarDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. JaguarDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

geospock.com

www.jaguardb.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

GeoSpock

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2015

2007

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.3 July 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

rights management via user accounts

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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

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