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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Tigris

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineHigh performance Time Series DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iokx.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualcode.kx.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoftTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20102000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320162022
Current release3.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CqC++
Server operating systems.NETLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)yesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno 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 datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyesAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityKdbMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseTigris
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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