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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase

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Name	Drizzle  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	TerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  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.
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 key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart		Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #367   Overall #56   Key-value stores	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website		azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	bytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker	Microsoft	ByteDance, originally Terark	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	2008	2016	2016	1987
Current release	7.2.4, September 2012			Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source GNU GPL	commercial	commercial restricted open source version available	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C++	C++	C and C++
Server operating systems	FreeBSD Linux OS X	hosted		FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	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.		no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes with proprietary extensions	yes	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	C++ API Java API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	C C++ Java PHP	C# Java PHP	C++ Java	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Transact SQL	no	yes
Triggers	no hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication	yes	none	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no	yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.			yes	no
User concepts Access control	Pluggable authentication mechanisms e.g. LDAP, HTTP	yes	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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