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DBMS > GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftSiteWhereApache Software Foundation
Initial release2004201620102014
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#C#
Java
PHP
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQLno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
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-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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