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DBMS > EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. mSQL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. mSQL vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticshughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperExasolCirconus LLC.MicrosoftHughes TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release20002017201619942018
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20184.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++CScala
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in LuaTransact SQLnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding, horizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoyesnono

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