DBMS > EXASOL vs. HugeGraph vs. JaguarDB vs. LeanXcale vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. HugeGraph vs. JaguarDB vs. LeanXcale vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#283	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.leanxcale.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Baidu

DataJaguar, Inc.

LeanXcale

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2018

2015

2014

Current release

0.9

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Groovy
Java
Python

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

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

Users, roles and permissions

rights management via user accounts

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

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