DBMS > EXASOL vs. Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.kinetica.com

quasar.ai

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

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.kinetica.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Exasol

Kinetica

quasardb

SAP, formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

2012

2009

1994

2000

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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