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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PlanetScale vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PlanetScale vs. RDFox

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsplanetscale.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftPlanetScaleOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2016201620202017
Current release6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++GoC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
replication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesRoles, resources, and access types

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