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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB

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Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

newdatabase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

postgis.net

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Mobiland AG

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

2016

2005

2020

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

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

Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
Java
PHP

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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.

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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