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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2008

2005

2016

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

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