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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Dragonfly vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Dragonfly vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Sadas Engine

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.esgyn.cnazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsEsgynMicrosoftSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20122023201520162006
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0, March 20238.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsLuaJava Stored ProceduresTransact SQLno
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
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 sourceyesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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