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DBMS > Apache Doris vs. Apache Druid vs. Informix vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Druid vs. Informix vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine

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NameApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.60
Rank#247  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitedoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
druid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticssplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikidruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.MicrosoftSplice Machine
Initial release20172012198420162014
Current release1.2.2, February 202329.0.1, April 202414.10.FC5, November 20203.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++ and JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL for queryingyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesTransact SQLyes infoJava
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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