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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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Name	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	SiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison	SwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data	An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store
Secondary database models		Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS	Score 0.06 Rank #383   Overall #43   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.04 Rank #387   Overall #61   Key-value stores
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.postgres-xl.org	github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere	swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentation	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation	sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer	Microsoft		SiteWhere	Simer Plaha
Initial release	2016	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB	2010	2018
Current release		10 R1, October 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Mozilla public license	Open Source Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0	Open Source GNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C	Java	Scala
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux macOS	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	predefined scheme	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	no
XML support Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.	no	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes distributed, parallel query execution	no	no
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects	HTTP REST
Supported programming languages	C# Java PHP	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl		Java Kotlin Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Transact SQL	user defined functions		no
Triggers	no	yes		no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	horizontal partitioning	Sharding based on HBase	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes		selectable replication factor based on HBase	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID MVCC	no	Atomic execution of operations
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no	no	yes
User concepts Access control	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Users with fine-grained authorization concept	no
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	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Postgres-XL	SiteWhere	SwayDB
Recent citations in the news	General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News		SiteWhere: An open platform for connected devices 11 July 2017, Open Source For You 11 Best Open source IoT Platforms To Develop Smart Projects 9 March 2023, H2S Media provided by Google News

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