DBMS > EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

opentsdb.net

postgis.net

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2013

2011

2005

2014

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
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

Numeric data and Strings

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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 query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

based on HBase

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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