DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2014

2019

Current release

1703

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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