DBMS > Geode vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

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

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2002

2010

2016

2014

Current release

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

.NET

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

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

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

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

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