DBMS > Graph Engine vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Realm vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Realm vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

en.gstore.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

realm.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

realm.io/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2010

2016

2014

2000

Current release

1.2, November 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

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