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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. mSQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.graphengine.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticshughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftMicrosoftHughes Technologies
Initial release2016201020161994
Current release4.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation language.NET and CC++C
Server operating systemshosted.NEThostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQLno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesno

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