DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2015

2016

1987

2014

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

16.0

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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