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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquasar.aispark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2016200920142014
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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-constraintsnonoyes
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 persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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