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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsraima.comwww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.raima.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftRaima Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20161984200920062001
Current release15, June 20213.2.0, December 20228.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CErlangC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nono infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationErlangnono
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaRiak KVSadas EngineSphinx
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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