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

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

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 frontendElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.datomic.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.datomic.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCognitectIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.MicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122012200520162014
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.6735, June 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 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 2016commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
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 insteadyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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#
Java
PHP
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoTransact SQLno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono 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 datanoACIDACIDACIDno
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 capabilitiesyesno

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