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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitebangdb.comwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.kinetica.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKineticaMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20122008201220162004
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20217.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C, C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsTransact SQLyes
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno 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 dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesno

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