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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiriDB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

siridb.com

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.siridb.com

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Microsoft

Cesbit

Ultipa

Initial release

2010

2016

2017

2019

Current release

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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