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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SpatiaLite vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2008

1999

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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