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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. ToroDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorewww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzagithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftIBM8Kdata
Initial release20082003201620002016
Current release1.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++Java
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux infoincluded in applianceAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details herenoyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App EnginenoTransact SQLyes
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles

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