DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Snowflake

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

raima.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.raima.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Raima Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

1991

2016

1984

2014

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.7

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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

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