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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StoragePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#118  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#372  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score23.95
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score11.20
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.jaguardb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDataJaguar, Inc.MicrosoftIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122015201620002014
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux infoincluded in appliancehosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoTransact SQLyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
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 sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcerights management via user accountsyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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