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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseCloud-based data warehousing serviceElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgiotdb.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlphoenix.apache.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationIBMMicrosoft
Initial release20122018201420142016
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.1.0, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native API
JDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsPL/SQL, SQL PLTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesIntegration with Hadoop and SparkHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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