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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Databricks vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.databricks.comwww.gbase.cngeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.databricks.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperDatabricksGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockMicrosoft
Initial release2016201320042016
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesyes
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Implementation languagePythonC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
C#C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsnoTransact SQL
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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