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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PieCloudDB vs. SingleStore vs. Vitess

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.openpie.comwww.singlestore.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.singlestore.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftOpenPieSingleStore Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release201620132013
Current release2.1, January 20238.5, January 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux info64 bit version requiredDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functionsyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningyesSharding infohash partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehousePieCloudDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLVitess
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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