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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.34
Rank	#62	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#209	Overall
	#34	Document stores

Score	15.35
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Aerospike

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2016

Current release

7.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

yes

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DB-Engines blog posts

Evaluating Hbase and Aerospike Solutions for Real-time System of Record
17 March 2020, Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike (sponsor)

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Recent citations in the news

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5 July 2024, AWS Blog

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29 October 2024, The Defense Post

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4 November 2024, Cloud Native Now

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22 October 2024, BAE Systems

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