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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

trafodion.apache.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

1987

Current release

2.3.0, February 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, via HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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