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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant vs. RDFox

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncQdrantOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2016201920212017
Current release6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++RustC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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 indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQL
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesCollection-level replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesKey-based authenticationRoles, resources, and access types

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