DBMS > EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

kairosdb.github.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2013

1993

2014

2018

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

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

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

based on Cassandra

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

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