Exasol
8.0#2 in olap softwareFrom $3.30 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxmacOS
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SingleStore Helios
8.1#1 in analytics databasesFree planFree planWebAPILinuxmacOS
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| Fact | Exasol | SingleStore Helios |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2000 | 2011 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Headquarters | Nuremberg, Germany | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Integrations | Official ecosystem documentation lists BI integrations including Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik Sense, SAS, Superset, Yellowfin and Amazon QuickSight. | Listed integrations include AWS Glue, Apache Beam, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Azure Data Factory, Azure Event Hubs, Confluent Kafka, Fivetran, Informatica, Qlik, Tableau Prep, dbt, Datadog, New Relic and Terraform. |
| Limit: cost | Reviewers say high-performance virtual machines and the service price can become expensive for large datasets. | TrustRadius reviewers say pricing can be expensive for smaller organizations and lacks transparency; G2 reviewers describe managed pricing as hefty and procurement as onerous. |
| Praise: performance | G2 and TrustRadius reviewers repeatedly praise very fast query execution, strong throughput and responsive reporting on large datasets. | TrustRadius reviewers repeatedly praise sub-second analytical queries, horizontal scalability, fast Kafka and S3 ingestion, and consolidation of OLTP and OLAP workloads. |
| Product | Exasol describes itself as a sovereign analytics database for high-concurrency AI and analytics workloads. | SingleStore Helios is a cloud database-as-a-service available on leading public clouds. |
| Rating on Capterra | 4.8 out of 5 from 12 reviews | 4.5 out of 5 from 39 reviews. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.7 out of 5 from 28 reviews | 4.5 out of 5 from 118 reviews. |
| Rating on Gartner Peer Insights | 4.8 out of 5 from 18 ratings | 4.4 out of 5 from 0 reviews shown on the currently rendered page. |
| Rating on TrustRadius | 8.6 out of 10 from 4 reviews | 8.2 out of 10 from 120 reviews and ratings. |
Exasol plans
- XS$3.30 a month
- S$6.60 a month
- M$13.20 a month
- L$26.40 a month
- XL$52.80 a month
- 2XL$105.60 a month
SingleStore Helios plans
- SharedFree
- StandardPriced on request
- EnterprisePriced on request
- BYOC StandardPriced on request
Pick Exasol if…
Exasol SaaS is suited to organizations with multi-department analytics needs, in-database machine learning or AI workloads, or complex data integration and virtualization requirements. Its deployment options also suit teams that need on-premises or air-gapped environments.
Pick SingleStore Helios if…
Helios suits teams needing a cloud database for transactional and analytical workloads, including those working with varied data types or AI workloads. The free Shared workspace is aimed at evaluation, development, and non-production use.