DBMS > EXASOL vs. InfinityDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Prometheus vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. InfinityDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Prometheus vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

boilerbay.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

prometheus.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

prometheus.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Boiler Bay Inc.

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2002

2008

2015

2014

Current release

4.0

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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 with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

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