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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrigoDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.00
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#379	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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