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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ScyllaDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ScyllaDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SQL.JS

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.scylladb.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.scylladb.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperRackspaceMicrosoftScyllaDBApache Software FoundationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20132016201520142012
Current releaseScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++ScalaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyes, Luanono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoin-memory tablesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnono
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BluefloodMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseScyllaDBSpark SQLSQL.JS
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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