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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. Splice Machine

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmachbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperActian CorporationMachbaseMicrosoftSplice Machine
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2013201620052014
Current release11.2, May 2022V8.0, August 20233.4.2, February 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCCC++CJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyesyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoTransact SQLuser defined functionsyes infoJava
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatorselectable replication factoryesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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