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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.monetdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

SiteWhere

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2004

2010

1998

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes, in SQL, C, R

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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