DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Dolt vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Dolt vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.20
Rank	#175	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#197	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.dolthub.com

memgraph.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

DoltHub Inc

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2018

2017

2016

2014

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Users, roles and permissions

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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