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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB vs. TDengine

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netravendb.netgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentationravendb.net/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperMicrosoftHibernating RhinosTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2016200520102019
Current release3.4.2, February 20245.4, July 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CC#C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (RQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.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
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate 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.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehousePostGISRavenDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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