DBMS > EXASOL vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
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Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Exasol

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

SenX

Initial release

2000

2014

2011

2015

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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