DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

dgraph.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

dgraph.io/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Microsoft

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

1999

Current release

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

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

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Planned for future releases

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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