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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. mSQL vs. Quasardb

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score15.35
Rank#37  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticshughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperMicrosoftHughes Technologiesquasardb
Initial release201619942009
Current release4.4, October 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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