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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comgeospock.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.snowflake.comwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperExasolGeoSpockSAP, formerly SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2000199420142020
Current release2.0, September 201916.1 SPS04, April 20192.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryeshorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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