DBMS > EXASOL vs. Machbase Neo vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Machbase Neo vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

machbase.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

machbase.com/dbms

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Exasol

Machbase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2000

2013

2014

2016

2009

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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