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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
postgis.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsopensearch.org/­docs/­latestpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftAmazon Web ServicesAlex Kashirin
Initial release2016202120052020
Current release2.5.0, January 20233.4.2, February 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageC++JavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseOpenSearchPostGISSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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