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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. mSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Trafodion

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticshughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpostgis.nettrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesOracleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20161994201120052014
Current release4.4, October 202123.3, December 20233.4.2, February 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaCC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Data schemeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnonouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cachenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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