DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

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Name

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.postgres-xl.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Mireo

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

2020

1998

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

1.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
C++
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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