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DBMS > Badger vs. DolphinDB vs. Ingres vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. DolphinDB vs. Ingres vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Well established RDBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.dolphindb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreskx.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingrescode.kx.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperDGraph LabsDolphinDB, IncActian CorporationKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoft
Initial release201720181974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032016
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202211.2, May 20223.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageGoC++CqC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (q)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesuser defined functionsTransact SQL
Triggersnonoyesyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsyes
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BadgerDolphinDBIngresKdbMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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