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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	27.19
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#215	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	18.72
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

Initial release

2008

2016

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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