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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. gStore vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

en.gstore.cn

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.2, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

rights management via user accounts

yes

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