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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRDF storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score2.47
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.commanticoresearch.comrdf4j.orgwww.snowflake.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmanual.manticoresearch.comrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperExasolManticore SoftwareSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Snowflake Computing Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20002017200420141987
Current release6.0, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemayes infoRDF Schemasyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noCan index from XMLyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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