DBMS > EXASOL vs. HarperDB vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. HarperDB vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

High-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.

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.harperdb.io

www.snowflake.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

HarperDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2000

2017

2014

2015

Current release

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Node.js

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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 data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

none

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 and roles

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

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