DBMS > DataFS vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mysql.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

dev.mysql.com/doc

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SiteWhere

Initial release

2018

2015

2016

1995

2010

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

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

Windows-Profile

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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