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

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2016

2020

2001

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

C++

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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