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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. SQream DB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrockset.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rockset.comdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRocksetSQream Technologies
Initial release2016200920192017
Current release3.2.0, December 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnodynamic typingyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLErlangnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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