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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticssplicemachine.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Actian CorporationMicrosoftSplice MachineVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20021974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201620142018
Current release4.012.0, July 20243.1, March 2021v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQLyes infoJavano
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres ReplicatoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes, 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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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