DBMS > EXASOL vs. eXtremeDB vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. eXtremeDB vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Exasol

McObject

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

SiteWhere

Initial release

2000

2001

2013

2017

2010

Current release

8.2, 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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