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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AlibabaGridGain Systems, Inc.SpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release20162016200720142016
Current release2.1, December 2018GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageCJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javayes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noTransact SQL
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes (replicated cache)yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes

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