DBMS > EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB 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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

SAP, formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2013

1994

2017

2014

Current release

2.7.5, January 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

yes

Numeric data

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP 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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

in enterprise version only

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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