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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Drizzle vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAlibabaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHypertable Inc.Microsoft
Initial release2016200820092016
Current release7.2.4, September 20120.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoTransact SQL
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono 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 persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoyes

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