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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Sequoiadb vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sequoiadb.com

trafodion.apache.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Microsoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

2011

Current release

2.3.0, February 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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