DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

kylin.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

2017

2014

2001

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

4.0 (May 2024)

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

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