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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PieCloudDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.openpie.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationMicrosoftOpenPie
Initial release20001974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2016
Current release15.5, September 202011.2, May 20222.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesyes
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetGoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyesyes
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 metadatanono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languageyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesTransact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Ingres Replicatoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno 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 dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controltoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
More information provided by the system vendor
GigaSpacesHyprcubdIngresMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehousePieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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