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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Greenplum vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.70
Rank	#138	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	13.36
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	20.66
Rank	#36	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

greenplum.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.greenplum.org

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Cognitect

Pivotal Software Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2005

2016

Current release

1.0.6362, January 2022

6.7.1, April 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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