DBMS > EXASOL vs. GreptimeDB vs. OrientDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GreptimeDB vs. OrientDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

greptime.com

orientdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.greptime.com

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Greptime Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2022

2010

2014

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

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

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

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

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Python

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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