DBMS > BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SWC-DB vs. WakandaDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
Name	BigObject  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	SWC-DB Super Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison	WakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS	WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database model	Relational DBMS a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed	Relational DBMS	Wide column store	Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database models			Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.19 Rank #329   Overall #146   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #364   Overall #13   Wide column stores	Score 0.10 Rank #356   Overall #16   Object oriented DBMS
Website	bigobject.io	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db www.swcdb.org	wakanda.github.io
Technical documentation	docs.bigobject.io	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics		wakanda.github.io/­doc
Developer	BigObject, Inc.	Microsoft	Alex Kashirin	Wakanda SAS
Initial release	2015	2016	2020	2012
Current release			0.5, April 2021	2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community edition available	commercial	Open Source GPL V3	Open Source AGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) Database as a Service Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation language		C++	C++	C++, JavaScript
Server operating systems	Linux distributed as a docker-image OS X distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker) Windows distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)	hosted	Linux	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes		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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	yes	SQL-like query language	no
APIs and other access methods	fluentd ODBC RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	Proprietary protocol Thrift	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages		C# Java PHP	C++	JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Lua	Transact SQL	no	yes
Triggers	no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes		none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes automatically between fact table and dimension tables	no 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	no	ACID		ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes		no	no
User concepts Access control	no	yes		yes
More information provided by the system vendor We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information, and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.
Related products and services We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.
More resources
	BigObject	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SWC-DB Super Wide Column Database	WakandaDB
Recent citations in the news		General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News	2022 All O-Zone Football Team 17 December 2022, Ozarks Sports Zone provided by Google News

Share this page