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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

galaxybase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transwarp

Initial release

2015

2017

2016

1998

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

Nov 20, November 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Transact SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Role-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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