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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RRDtool vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RRDtool vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftTobias OetikerAlex KashirinTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122016199920201987
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.8.0, 20220.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedHP-UX
Linux
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono 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 datanoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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