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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PouchDB vs. RDF4J vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PouchDB vs. RDF4J vs. VoltDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRDF storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspouchdb.comrdf4j.orgwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspouchdb.com/­guidesrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMicrosoftApache Software FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20082016201220042010
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1.1, June 201911.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaScriptJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLView functions in JavaScriptyesJava
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyesnonoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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