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DBMS > Graphite vs. Heroic vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Heroic vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmaxdb.sap.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifySAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MicrosoftIBM
Initial release20062014198420162000
Current release7.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesTransact SQLyes
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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