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System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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Name	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Trafodion  Xexclude from comparison	VelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
			Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS	A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.17 Rank #337   Overall #30   Time Series DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS		Score 0.11 Rank #354   Overall #37   Graph DBMS #15   Object oriented DBMS
Website	machbase.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	trafodion.apache.org	velocitydb.com
Technical documentation	machbase.com/­dbms	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html	velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer	Machbase	Microsoft	Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP	VelocityDB Inc
Initial release	2013	2016	2014	2011
Current release	V8.0, August 2023		2.3.0, February 2019	7.x
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free test version available	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C	C++	C++, Java	C#
Server operating systems	Linux macOS Windows	hosted	Linux	Any that supports .NET
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	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	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	yes	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	gRPC HTTP REST JDBC MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.Net
Supported programming languages	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript PHP via ODBC Python R via ODBC Scala	C# Java PHP	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net	.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Transact SQL	Java Stored Procedures	no
Triggers	no	no	no	Callbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	selectable replication factor	yes	yes, via HBase
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes via user defined functions and HBase	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	no	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes volatile and lookup table		no	yes
User concepts Access control	simple password-based access control	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Based on Windows Authentication
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	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Trafodion	VelocityDB
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