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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RDFox vs. SingleStore vs. YottaDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerWidely used in-process key-value storeHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.singlestore.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.singlestore.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleOxford Semantic TechnologiesSingleStore Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release20161994201720132001
Current release18.1.40, May 20206.0, Septermber 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C++, GoC
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
Java
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoyes
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRoles, resources, and access typesFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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