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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Exasol

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

2000

2017

2014

1985

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

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

configurable

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

yes

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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13 June 2023

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