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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. Pinecone vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. Pinecone vs. SQL.JS

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerWidely used open source RDBMSApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA managed, cloud-native vector databasePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.mysql.comwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.pinecone.iosql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdev.mysql.com/­docdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunProgress Software CorporationPinecone Systems, IncAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20161995198420192012
Current release8.4.0, April 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)PythonJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyes infoproprietary syntaxyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabrichorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers and groupsno

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