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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OceanBase vs. PostgreSQL vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#119	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	644.36
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

en.oceanbase.com

www.postgresql.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

www.postgresql.org/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Microsoft

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2010

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2012

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

16.4, August 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data 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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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 for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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