DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

geode.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2002

2000

2016

1995

Current release

1.1, February 2017

15.5, September 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

Role-based access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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