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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#235  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#33  Key-value stores
Score16.84
Rank#33  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#180  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.graphengine.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperMicrosoftMicrosoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)PerconaTeradata
Initial release20102016198420152005
Current release7.4.1.1, 20213.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++C++
Server operating systems.NEThostedHP Open VMSLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLJavaScriptR packages
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseOracle RdbPercona Server for MongoDBTeradata Aster
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