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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

2017

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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