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DBMS > Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.firebolt.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.MicrosoftMonetDB BVAlex Kashirin
Initial release2020201620042020
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno 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 dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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