CData Query Federation Drivers vs. Python vs. Racket vs. SAS Federation Server Comparison Chart

The Query Federation Drivers provide a universal data access layer that simplifies application development and data access. The drivers make it easy to query data across systems with SQL through a common driver interface. The Query Federation Drivers enable users to embed Logical Data Warehousing capabilities into any application or process. A Logical Data Warehouse is an architectural layer that enables access to multiple data sources on-demand, without relocating or transforming data in advance. Essentially the Query Federation Drivers give users simple, SQL-based access to all of your databases, data warehouses, and cloud applications through a single interface. Developers can pick multiple data processing systems and access all of them with a single SQL-based interface.

Racket is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language that serves as a modern dialect of Lisp and a descendant of Scheme. It is designed as a platform for programming language design and implementation, enabling developers to create new domain-specific and general-purpose languages. Racket's core language includes features such as macros, modules, lexical closures, tail calls, delimited continuations, parameters (fluid variables), software contracts, green threads, and OS threads. The language also comes with primitives, such as event spaces and custodians, which control resource management and enable the language to act like an operating system for loading and managing other programs. Further extensions to the language are created with the powerful macro system, which, together with the module system and custom parsers, can control all aspects of a language. Most language constructs in Racket are implemented as macros in the base language.