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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Pinecone vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. TigerGraph

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.pinecone.iorealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrealm.io/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SC
Initial release20162019201420112017
Current release4.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C#C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynoyes
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesnoRole-based access control

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