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DBMS > DuckDB vs. Hazelcast vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Hazelcast vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SWC-DB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA widely adopted in-memory data gridA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Time Series DBMS
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Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteduckdb.orghazelcast.comboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperHazelcastBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftAlex Kashirin
Initial release20182008200220162020
Current release1.0.0, June 20245.3.6, November 20234.00.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaC#
Java
PHP
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnoTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlnoyes

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