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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GBase vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2010

2016

Current release

GBase 8a

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

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