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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. OpenSearch vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Snowflake

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
raima.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.raima.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperExasolAmazon Web ServicesRaima Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2000202119842014
Current release2.5.0, January 202315, June 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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EXASOLOpenSearchRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaSnowflake
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Raima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Decreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Typical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Just as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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