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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison	VelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison	Yaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
				Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
Description	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS	A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)	OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS Object oriented DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS	Score 0.11 Rank #354   Overall #37   Graph DBMS #15   Object oriented DBMS
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html	velocitydb.com	yaacomo.com
Technical documentation	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html	velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer	Microsoft	Transaction Software GmbH	VelocityDB Inc	Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release	2016	1987	2011	2009
Current release		Transbase 8.3, 2022	7.x
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free development license	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C and C++	C#
Server operating systems	hosted	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows	Any that supports .NET	Android Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API	.Net	JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	C# Java PHP	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python	.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Transact SQL	yes	no
Triggers	no	yes	Callbacks are triggered when data changes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding, horizontal partitioning		Sharding	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Source-replica replication		Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	yes	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no	yes	yes
User concepts Access control	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Based on Windows Authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Transbase	VelocityDB	Yaacomo
Recent citations in the news	General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News

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