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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PlanetScale vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PlanetScale vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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 ServerScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessSpatial 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 modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  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-analyticsplanetscale.compostgis.netravendb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsplanetscale.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentationravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftPlanetScaleHibernating RhinosAlex Kashirin
Initial release20162020200520102020
Current release3.4.2, February 20245.4, July 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++GoCC#C++
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
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
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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 SQLyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate 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-constraintsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at shard levelACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
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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