DBMS > Badger vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io

www.snowflake.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

DGraph Labs

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2017

2016

2017

2014

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended 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, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

yes

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