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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsorientdb.orgravendb.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPHibernating RhinosSiteWhere
Initial release2016201020102010
Current release3.2.29, March 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC#Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLJava, Javascriptyes
TriggersnoHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes inforelationship in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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