DBMS > Badger vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rocksdb.org

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

DGraph Labs

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Splice Machine

Initial release

2017

2010

2016

2013

2014

Current release

V12

9.2.1, May 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

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++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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