DBMS > EXASOL vs. LeanXcale vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. LeanXcale vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Exasol

LeanXcale

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2000

2015

2014

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

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

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

yes

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