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DBMS > Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vitess

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinvitess.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2006201620092013
Current release15.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Groovy
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesnoyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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