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DBMS > Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.snowflake.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSpotifyMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSnowflake Computing Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142016199320141987
Current release3.4-12Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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