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DBMS > Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. SiteWhere vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. SiteWhere vs. Splice Machine

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzagithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperActian CorporationMicrosoftIBMSiteWhereSplice Machine
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2016200020102014
Current release11.2, May 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeyes
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 availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLyesyes infoJava
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatoryesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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