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DBMS > Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ScyllaDB vs. Speedb vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ScyllaDB vs. Speedb vs. Splice Machine

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.scylladb.comwww.speedb.iosplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.scylladb.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperActian CorporationMicrosoftScyllaDBSpeedbSplice Machine
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2016201520202014
Current release11.2, May 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLyes, Luanoyes infoJava
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyesMulti-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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate 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 dataACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsyesACID
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.noyes infoin-memory tablesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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IngresMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseScyllaDBSpeedbSplice Machine
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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