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DBMS > EXASOL vs. HarperDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. HarperDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Spark SQL

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.harperdb.iowww.progress.com/­marklogicspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperExasolHarperDBMarkLogic Corp.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2000201720012014
Current release3.1, August 202111.0, December 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infoSQL92SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsno

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