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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

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