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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. GeoMesa vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. GeoMesa vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RavenDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.High 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 ServerOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsravendb.net
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCCRi and othersIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.MicrosoftHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20122014200520162010
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.0.5, February 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaCC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesyesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoTransact SQLyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
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 datanonoACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourcedepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyesAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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