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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.18
Rank#122  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#387  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.gigaspaces.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
yanza.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperEnterpriseDBGigaspaces TechnologiesMicrosoftAlex KashirinYanza
Initial release20052000201620202015
Current release14, December 202115.5, September 20200.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageCJava, C++, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
C++any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesTransact SQLnono
Triggersyesyes, event driven architecturenonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlyesno

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