DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. NCache vs. NebulaGraph vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. NCache vs. NebulaGraph vs. OpenEdge

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Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mysql.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alachisoft

Vesoft Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2016

1995

2005

2019

1984

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Role-based access control

Users and groups

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