DBMS > EXASOL vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2005

2013

2014

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

yes

ACID

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

based on PostgreSQL

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

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