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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Datomic vs. Infobright vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Datomic vs. Infobright vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  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 StorageDatomic 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 frontendPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.datomic.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.jaguardb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.datomic.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCognitectIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20122012200520152016
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.6735, June 20233.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoTransaction FunctionsnonoTransact SQL
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual 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 datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesrights management via user accountsyes

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