Informatica Data Engineering Streaming vs. DeltaStream vs. SQL Server Data Access Components vs. ThinkSQL Comparison Chart

DeltaStream is a unified serverless stream processing platform that integrates with streaming storage services. Think about it as the compute layer on top of your streaming storage. It provides functionalities of streaming analytics(Stream processing) and streaming databases along with additional features to provide a complete platform to manage, process, secure and share streaming data. DeltaStream provides a SQL based interface where you can easily create stream processing applications such as streaming pipelines, materialized views, microservices and many more. It has a pluggable processing engine and currently uses Apache Flink as its primary stream processing engine. DeltaStream is more than just a query processing layer on top of Kafka or Kinesis. It brings relational database concepts to the data streaming world, including namespacing and role based access control enabling you to securely access, process and share your streaming data regardless of where they are stored.

ThinkSQL is a powerful, cross-platform relational database management system designed for modern operating systems and hardware. It aims to comply fully with the ISO SQL standard to provide an open and flexible SQL server for your applications. Compliance with the SQL standard means it supports transactions, sub-selects, views, set operators (union, except, intersect), access privileges and comprehensive referential constraints to ensure the integrity of your data. ThinkSQL uses a multi-versioning engine to provide consistent views of data and concurrent access to rows without locking. The server also has stored procedures and functions (using the standard syntax), and has support for large multimedia objects. It's easy to install, runs on Windows ® and Linux ®, and has native ODBC, JDBC™, dbExpress™ and Python drivers so your applications can connect directly from any platform.