DBMS > Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

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Description

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Website

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Splice Machine

Initial release

2015

2016

2014

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Transact SQL

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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

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