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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
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Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Rackspace

IBM

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2014

2016

2000

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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