DBMS > EXASOL vs. Hive vs. LokiJS vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Hive vs. LokiJS vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

hive.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

ravendb.net

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

ravendb.net/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Hibernating Rhinos

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2012

2014

2010

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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, groups and roles

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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

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