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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine vs. ToroDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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 ServerOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS and big data platformA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperMicrosoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Sphinx Technologies Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data8Kdata
Initial release20161984200120192016
Current release7.4.1.1, 20213.5.1, February 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CJava
Server operating systemshostedHP Open VMSFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnono
Triggersnonoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyesAccess rights for users and roles
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseOracle RdbSphinxTDengineToroDB
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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