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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenTenBase

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

IBM

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2014

2017

2016

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in Lua

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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