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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.gridgain.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20142017200720161984
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQLyes
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.yes (replicated cache)yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security Hooks for custom implementationsyesUsers and groups

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