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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Qdrant vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Qdrant vs. Splice Machine

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
splicemachine.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsqdrant.tech/­documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Actian CorporationMicrosoftQdrantSplice Machine
Initial release20101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201620212014
Current release11.2, May 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangCC++RustJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesTransact SQLyes infoJava
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatoryesCollection-level replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno 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 datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesKey-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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