DBMS > EXASOL vs. Kdb vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Kdb vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

kx.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

code.kx.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2021

2011

2014

Current release

3.6, May 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

similar paradigm used for internal processing

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

upon request
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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