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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Pinecone vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Pinecone vs. searchxml

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.exasol.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.pinecone.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperExasolMicrosoftPinecone Systems, Incinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2000201620192015
Current release1.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
PHP
PythonC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQLyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno 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 dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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