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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OushuDB vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite

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Name	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	OushuDB  Xexclude from comparison	PostGIS  Xexclude from comparison	SpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning	Spatial extension of PostgreSQL	Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models			Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.10 Rank #355   Overall #154   Relational DBMS	Score 21.72 Rank #29   Overall #1   Spatial DBMS	Score 1.63 Rank #146   Overall #3   Spatial DBMS
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDB	postgis.net	www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentation	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	www.oushu.com/­documentation	postgis.net/­documentation	www.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer	Microsoft	Oushu		Alessandro Furieri
Initial release	2016		2005	2008
Current release		4.0.1, August 2020	3.4.2, February 2024	5.0.0, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPL v2.0	Open Source MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++		C	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux		server-less
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no		yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	Full-featured ANSI SQL support	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	C# Java PHP	C C++
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Transact SQL	yes	user defined functions	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	yes	yes based on PostgreSQL	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes		yes based on PostgreSQL	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	Hadoop integration	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints		yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.			no	yes
User concepts Access control	yes	Kerberos, SSL and role based access	yes based on PostgreSQL	no
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	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	OushuDB	PostGIS	SpatiaLite
DB-Engines blog posts			Spatial database management systems 6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann show all	Spatial database management systems 6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann show all
Recent citations in the news	General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News	China's answer to Snowflake is shaping as data demands upgrade 8 September 2021, PingWest provided by Google News

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