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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.datomic.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.datomic.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Cognitect

Baidu

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2012

2018

2016

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Transaction Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Transact SQL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

edges in graph

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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