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DBMS > Altibase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.hawkular.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAltibaseGigaspaces TechnologiesCommunity supported by Red HatMicrosoft
Initial release1999200020142016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202315.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnoTransact SQL
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono 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 dataACIDACIDnoACID
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlnoyes

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