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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NCache

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  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.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityHigh performance Time Series DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriskx.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clscode.kx.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerInterSystemsKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoftAlachisoft
Initial release200820182000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320162005
Current release7.2.4, September 20122023.3, June 20233.6, May 20185.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++qC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (q)yesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsTransact SQLno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infowith viewsnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno 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 dataACIDACIDnoACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyesrights management via user accountsyesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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DrizzleInterSystems IRISKdbMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseNCache
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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