DBMS > EXASOL vs. Greenplum vs. OrientDB vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Greenplum vs. OrientDB vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

greenplum.org

orientdb.org

www.risingwave.com/database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.greenplum.org

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Pivotal Software Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

RisingWave Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2005

2010

2022

2014

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Docker
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java, Javascript

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users and Roles

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

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