DBMS > EXASOL vs. H2 vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. H2 vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.h2database.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Exasol

Thomas Mueller

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2000

2005

1987

2014

1987

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

16.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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