DBMS > EXASOL vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. ToroDB

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS info

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.86
Rank	#90	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	5.09
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	2.42
Rank	#100	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#297	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.exasol.com/en/products

www.sap.com/products/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

www.torodb.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/en/community/resources

help.sap.com/iq

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.torodb.com/stampede/docs

Developer

Exasol

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2000

1994

2014

2016

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

XML support info

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

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