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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA multi-model DBMS and application serverElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgbasex.orggeospock.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.basex.orgdocs.intersystems.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaseX GmbHGeoSpockInterSystemsMicrosoft
Initial release2012200719972016
Current release29.0.1, April 202411.0, June 20242.0, September 20192018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesTransact SQL
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneAutomatic shardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno 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 datanomultiple readers, single writernoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes

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