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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blazegraph vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeblazegraph.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAlibabaBlazegraphGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoft
Initial release20162006201420032016
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.1.12, February 20171.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoTransact SQL
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes

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