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DBMS > EXASOL vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsOpen Source Time Series DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsiridb.comwww.snowflake.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.siridb.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperExasolSAP, formerly SybaseCesbitSnowflake Computing Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20001994201720142001
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoNumeric datayesno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerShardingyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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