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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.27
Rank#60  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score14.41
Rank#37  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#373  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftMicrosoftMonetDB BVAlex Kashirin
Initial release2015201620042020
Current releaseV1Dec2023 (11.49), December 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono 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 datanoACIDACID
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 controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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