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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsInterSystemsMicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2017201820162014
Current release2022, May 20222023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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FeatureBaseInterSystems IRISMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSnowflake
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