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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#255	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/hana

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

SAP

Splice Machine

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2016

2010

2014

Current release

11.2, May 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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