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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Sadas Engine vs. ScyllaDB vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.sadasengine.comwww.scylladb.comsiridb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.scylladb.comdocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftSADAS s.r.l.ScyllaDBCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162006201520172001
Current release8.0ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++CC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datano
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoyes, Luanono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectsimple rights management via user accountsno
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSadas EngineScyllaDBSiriDBSphinx
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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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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