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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Milvus vs. SQream DB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector 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
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.iosqream.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MicrosoftSQream Technologies
Initial release20121984201620192017
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.9.10.12, February 20242.3.4, January 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++, GoC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesTransact SQLnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
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 sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DrillMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseMilvusSQream DB
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