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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Hive vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperExasolApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20002012200020142012
Current release3.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoincluded in appliancehostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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