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DBMS > Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. YTsaurus

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentationytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperActian CorporationMicrosoftYandex
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201620052023
Current release11.2, May 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++CC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedUbuntu
Data schemeyesyesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
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-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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 controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess Control Lists

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