DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Cachelot.io vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Cachelot.io vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

In-memory caching system

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

cachelot.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Amazon

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

2015

2010

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Memcached protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

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