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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. ArcadeDB vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name	Alibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparison	ArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access	Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database model	Wide column store	Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Time Series DBMS in next version	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.31 Rank #297   Overall #11   Wide column stores	Score 0.10 Rank #358   Overall #48   Document stores #38   Graph DBMS #52   Key-value stores #35   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-store	arcadedb.com	google.github.io/­lovefield	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestore	docs.arcadedb.com	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Alibaba	Arcade Data	Google	Microsoft
Initial release	2016	2021	2014	2016
Current release		September 2021	2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	yes
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Implementation language		Java	JavaScript	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java VM	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language, no joins	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API	JDBC MongoDB API OpenCypher PostgreSQL wire protocol Redis API RESTful HTTP/JSON API TinkerPop Gremlin		ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	Java Python	Java	JavaScript	C# Java PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no		no	Transact SQL
Triggers	no		Using read-only observers	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service		none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Source-replica replication	none	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes relationship in graphs	yes	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	Atomic single-row operations	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		yes using MemoryDB
User concepts Access control	Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens		no	yes
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	Alibaba Cloud Table Store	ArcadeDB	Lovefield	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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