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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Trino

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NameMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score83.04
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score5.07
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasetrino.io
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqltrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperMicrosoftTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20102012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current releaseV12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availabledepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesdepending on connected data-source
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureTrino
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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