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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. DuckDB vs. Heroic vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. DuckDB vs. Heroic vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  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 StorageAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh 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
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgduckdb.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsduckdb.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSpotifyIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20122018201420052016
Current release1.20.3, January 20230.10, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial 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 servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.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 functionsnononoTransact SQL
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate 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 datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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
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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