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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.In-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 storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.databricks.comwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.databricks.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAlibabaDatabricksDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoft
Initial release2016201320032016
Current release1.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyes
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnoTransact SQL
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono 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 operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreDatabricksMemcachedMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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