DBMS > EXASOL vs. jBASE vs. Netezza vs. SingleStore vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. jBASE vs. Netezza vs. SingleStore vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Exasol

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

IBM

SingleStore Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

1991

2000

2013

2000

Current release

5.7

8.5, January 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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