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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverpostgis.netravendb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTpostgis.net/­documentationravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftPerconaHibernating RhinosAlex Kashirin
Initial release20162008200520102020
Current release8.0.36-28, 20243.4.2, February 20245.4, July 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++CC#C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
yes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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-constraintsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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