DBMS > EXASOL vs. KeyDB vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. KeyDB vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

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Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#219	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.keydb.dev

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2019

2017

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

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

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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 and ACL

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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