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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Graph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft
Initial release2000201820102016
Current release15.5, September 20200.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptTransact SQL
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsvia hugegraph-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes

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