DBMS > EXASOL vs. JanusGraph vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. JanusGraph vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	5.10
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

janusgraph.org

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

www.snowflake.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.janusgraph.org

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Exasol

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

2017

1994

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

SQL standard access control

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