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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
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Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperMicrosoftIBMApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC8Kdata
Initial release20162000201220112016
Current release7.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC#Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoincluded in applianceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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