
Exasol
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| Fact | Exasol | TDengine |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Exasol lists on-premises, hybrid, and fully managed SaaS deployment options; on-premises environments can include air-gapped setups. | Self-hosted deployments can run at the edge, in containers or virtual machines, on local servers, or in public, private, or hybrid clouds. |
| Headquarters | Nuremberg, Germany | San Jose, California, United States |
| Integrations | Official ecosystem documentation lists BI integrations including Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik Sense, SAS, Superset, Yellowfin and Amazon QuickSight. | The documented ecosystem includes Grafana integration, Kafka integration, MQTT, OPC, PI System and Excel connectivity. |
| Limit: ecosystem | Reviewers note a smaller community and fewer niche integrations than Snowflake or Databricks, plus limited active partners. | Several G2 reviewers say the community, third-party tutorials, plugins and broader ecosystem are smaller than those around InfluxDB or TimescaleDB. |
| Praise: performance | G2 and TrustRadius reviewers repeatedly praise very fast query execution, strong throughput and responsive reporting on large datasets. | G2 reviewers repeatedly praise fast ingestion and queries, scalability and handling of large high-frequency time-series datasets. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.7 out of 5 from 28 reviews | 4.7 out of 5 from 15 reviews. |
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.
TDengine is designed for industrial enterprises and organizations running traditional data historians or legacy industrial IoT platforms, especially those needing time-series ingestion and analysis.