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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Graph Engine vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Graph Engine vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Spark SQL

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.graphengine.ioignite.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMicrosoftApache Software FoundationMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release20232010201520162014
Current release1.0, March 2023Apache Ignite 2.63.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC++, Java, .NetC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux.NETLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQLno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesno

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