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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SWC-DB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL 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 Server

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Teradata

Initial release

2008

2016

2020

2005

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Java
PHP

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

R packages

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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