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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. ToroDB vs. Trino

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.splunk.com

github.com/torodb/server

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

8Kdata

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

1992

2003

2016

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantages

High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenarios

Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customers

Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics

33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing models

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24 April 2024

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15 April 2024

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