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DBMS > Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Pinecone vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Pinecone vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TinkerGraph

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA managed, cloud-native vector databaseLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#345  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.MicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncSybase, SAP
Initial release20022016201919932009
Current release1.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
PythonDelphi
Perl
PHP
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQLyesno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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