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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.snowflake.comtrafodion.apache.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPTranswarp
Initial release201620142014
Current release2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OpenCypher
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningyesShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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-constraintsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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