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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewpostgis.netwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperExasolSnowflake Computing Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release20002013200520142020
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.4.2, February 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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EXASOLInfluxDBPostGISSnowflakeSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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