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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.37
Rank#263  Overall
#121  Relational DBMS
Score14.41
Rank#37  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoft
Initial release20152016
Current release1.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhosted
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes

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