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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperCognitectDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMicrosoft
Initial release2016201220232016
Current release1.0.7075, December 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesscheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsLuaTransact SQL
TriggersBy using transaction functionspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono 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 dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoPassword-based authenticationyes

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