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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. SurrealDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 simplicityElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.progress.com/­openedgesurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.MicrosoftProgress Software CorporationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2017201619842022
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuaTransact SQLyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono 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 datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesUsers and groupsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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