DBMS > EXASOL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.99
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Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2000

2007

2014

2020

Current release

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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

yes

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