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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Mireo

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2009

2020

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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