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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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 durabilityElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrethinkdb.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsrethinkdb.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperCognitectMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20162012201620092006
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.4.1, August 20208.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C#
Java
PHP
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsTransact SQLno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 developmentnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyesyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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