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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Spark SQL

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/manticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Manticore SoftwareMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release2017201720162014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20186.0, February 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.noCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luauser defined functionsTransact SQLno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding, horizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono 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 datanoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyesno

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