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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Sequoiadb

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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 distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Microsoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2010

2016

2013

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Eventual 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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

yes

simple password-based access control

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