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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score15.25
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comaws.amazon.com/­redshiftcouchdb.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperFranz Inc.Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMicrosoftMicrosoft
Initial release20042012200520152016
Current release8.0, December 20233.3.3, December 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions infoin PythonView functions in JavaScriptnoTransact SQL
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonono 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 dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationyes
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