DBMS > EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. Snowflake

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Name

IRONdb 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.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.70
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.gigaspaces.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

kx.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

code.kx.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Gigaspaces Technologies

Circonus LLC.

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2017

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

Current release

15.5, September 2020

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

text, numeric, histograms

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

with views

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

Role-based access control

rights management via user accounts

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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