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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

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

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#359	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#52	Key-value stores
	#23	Search engines
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.snowflake.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Exasol

Progress Software Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2000

1984

2014

2022

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Users and groups

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

Access rights for users and roles

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