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

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Name

Description

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
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Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Baidu

Microsoft

Initial release

2000

2018

2016

Current release

15.5, September 2020

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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