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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. jBASE vs. Newts vs. SingleStore vs. Tigris

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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

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

opennms.github.io/newts

www.singlestore.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Exasol

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

OpenNMS Group

SingleStore Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2000

1991

2014

2013

2022

Current release

5.7

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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, using FoundationDB

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

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