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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. ToroDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. ToroDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netgithub.com/­torodb/­serverytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentationytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperMicrosoft8KdataYandex
Initial release2016200520162023
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java 7 VMUbuntu
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno
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 PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate 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 dataACIDACIDnoACID
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 PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists

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