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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL vs. VelocityDB

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

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 processingA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquasar.aispark.apache.org/­sqlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbApache Software FoundationVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2016200920142011
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++ScalaC#
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
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 statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnonono
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
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 factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno
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-constraintsnonono
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 modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoBased on Windows Authentication

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