DBMS > EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Exasol

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2000

2010

2015

2014

2020

Current release

3.3 July 2023

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

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

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)

rights management via user accounts

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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