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DBMS > Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PlanetScale vs. Splice Machine vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PlanetScale vs. Splice Machine vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#15  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsplanetscale.comsplicemachine.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsplanetscale.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperActian CorporationMicrosoftPlanetScaleSplice Machine
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2016202020142023
Current release11.2, May 20223.1, March 20211.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++GoJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLyes infoproprietary syntaxyes infoJavano
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at shard levelACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes, 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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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