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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Prometheus

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsprometheus.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCommunity supported by Red HatMicrosoft
Initial release20122010201420162015
Current release1.20.3, January 20238.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
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 sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesno

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