DBMS > EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Ignite vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Ignite vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.13
Rank	#96	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	8.05
Rank	#51	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	4.73
Rank	#75	Overall
	#12	Key-value stores
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	18.22
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#317	Overall
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

ignite.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

github.com/Terark/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

github.com/Terark/terarkdb/wiki

Developer

Exasol

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Terark

Initial release

2000

2017

2015

2014

2016

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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

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