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DBMS > Bangdb vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Spark SQL

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBCirconus LLC.MicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release2012201720162014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021V0.10.20, January 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuaTransact SQLno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding, horizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
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 modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)noyesno

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