DBMS > EXASOL vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. Virtuoso

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. Virtuoso

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.83
Rank	#87	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#338	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	2.18
Rank	#106	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#95	Overall
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#3	Native XML DBMS
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#2	RDF stores
	#11	Search engines

Website

www.exasol.com/en/products

www.datajaguar.com

www.snowflake.com

virtuoso.openlinksw.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/en/community/resources

www.datajaguar.com/support.php

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

Developer

Exasol

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

OpenLink Software

Initial release

2000

2015

2014

1998

Current release

2.9.4 September 2018

8.3, May 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source info

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

SQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented info

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Virtuoso PL

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication

yes

Chain, star, and bi-directional replication
Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

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

Fine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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Specific characteristics

SQL support, group by, order by, join
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Virtuoso is a modern multi-model RDBMS for managing data represented as tabular relations...
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Competitive advantages

Extremely easy to scale-out (in seconds) 100,000 times faster
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Performance & Scale — as exemplified by DBpedia and the LOD Cloud it spawned, i.e.,...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT data, time series data, AI data. Any type of numerical data.
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Used for — Analytics/BI Conceptual Data Virtualization Enterprise Knowledge Graphs...
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Key customers

Quantea, 2PiDay, Synqy, SinoLogistics, IIVI
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Broad use across enterprises and governments including — European Union (EU) US Government...
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Market metrics

Advertising awareness, installed base, brand image, market share
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Largest installed-base of Multi-Model RDBMS for AI-friendly Knowledge Graphs Platform...
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Licensing and pricing models

Free-trial license, per-node license, and subscription license.
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Available in both Commercial Enterprise and Open Source (GPL v2) Editions Feature...
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