DBMS > EXASOL vs. Hive vs. RDFox vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Hive vs. RDFox vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#18	Overall
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Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
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	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
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Website

www.exasol.com

hive.apache.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

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

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2012

2017

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Roles, resources, and access types

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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