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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Stardog vs. VelocityDB

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Name	EsgynDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Stardog  Xexclude from comparison	VelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization	A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS RDF store	Graph DBMS Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.25 Rank #312   Overall #138   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 2.07 Rank #122   Overall #11   Graph DBMS #6   RDF stores	Score 0.11 Rank #354   Overall #37   Graph DBMS #15   Object oriented DBMS
Website	www.esgyn.cn	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.stardog.com	velocitydb.com
Technical documentation		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	docs.stardog.com	velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer	Esgyn	Microsoft	Stardog-Union	VelocityDB Inc
Initial release	2015	2016	2010	2011
Current release			7.3.0, May 2020	7.x
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial 60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C++, Java	C++	Java	C#
Server operating systems	Linux	hosted	Linux macOS Windows	Any that supports .NET
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no Import/export of XML data possible	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server	no
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	GraphQL query language HTTP API Jena RDF API OWL RDF4J API Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SNARL SPARQL Spring Data Stardog Studio TinkerPop 3	.Net
Supported programming languages	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net	C# Java PHP	.Net Clojure Groovy Java JavaScript Python Ruby	.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Java Stored Procedures	Transact SQL	user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java	no
Triggers	no	no	yes via event handlers	Callbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication between multi datacenters	yes	Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes relationships in graphs	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		yes	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes	Access rights for users and roles	Based on Windows Authentication
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	EsgynDB	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Stardog	VelocityDB
Recent citations in the news		General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News

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