DBMS > gStore vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splice Machine

Initial release

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2016

2014

Current release

1.2, November 2023

11.2, May 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

MVCC

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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