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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Datomic vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Datomic vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  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 StorageA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational 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
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.datomic.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.datomic.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCloudflareCognitectIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20122018201220052016
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Clojure
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoTransact SQL
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono 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 sourceyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyes

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