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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AllegroGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrientDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AllegroGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrientDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeallegrograph.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsorientdb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputefranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaFranz Inc.MicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSiteWhere
Initial release20162004201620102010
Current release8.0, December 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")predefined scheme
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.nono infobulk load of XML files possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSPARQL is used as query languageyesSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infoJavaScript or Common LispTransact SQLJava, Javascript
TriggersnoyesnoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicewith FederationSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeAllegroGraphMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseOrientDBSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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