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

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

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApache 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 ServerSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­sqlsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftApache Software FoundationSplice MachineTeradata
Initial release20152016201420142005
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.63.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQLnoyes infoJavaR packages
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark CoreShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)yesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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