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

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Time Series DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netsiridb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftCesbitAlex Kashirin
Initial release2016200520172020
Current release3.4.2, February 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
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 PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple rights management via user accounts

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