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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netsql.js.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2014201620052012
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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