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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Databricks vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.databricks.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.leanxcale.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Databricks

Google

acquired by Google 2014

LeanXcale

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2012

2015

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

with Databricks SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
Java
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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