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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	15.35
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#370	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Microsoft

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2011

Current release

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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