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Alibaba Cloud Hologres vs Azure Synapse Analytics

Both stand on data warehouse software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Alibaba Cloud Hologres

Paid Web

Hologres combines data lake and streaming support with several billing structures. Pricing varies by region, and the listed plans include both hourly and prepaid options.

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Choose Azure Synapse Analytics if your workloads call for data-lake queries, SQL warehousing, Spark processing, or interactive log and telemetry analysis. Its range of compute options is the main reason to consider it; look elsewhere if you need a free plan or publicly stated prices.

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The facts

	Alibaba Cloud Hologres	Azure Synapse Analytics
Free plan	No	No
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Web	Web
Lowest paid plan	See the plans	Free or on request
Plans published	3	7
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	alibabacloud.com	azure.microsoft.com
On data warehouse software	#18 of 27	#22 of 27

Alibaba Cloud Hologres: what it does well

Separates storage and compute
Supports data lakes
Supports streaming ingestion
Shared Cluster has a listed $0.04 a month price

What to know first

No free plan
Two plans have no listed price
Shared Cluster has a 10 MB minimum charge per query

Azure Synapse Analytics: what it does well

Queries Azure Data Lake without provisioning infrastructure through Serverless SQL pool.
Dedicated SQL pay-as-you-go compute can be paused.
Reserved dedicated SQL capacity is available for one or three years.
Spark options include memory-optimized and GPU-accelerated processing.
Supports separate storage and compute, streaming ingestion, and in-database machine learning.

What to know first

There is no free plan.
Pricing is available on request.
Dedicated SQL warehousing uses provisioned compute.

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