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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RethinkDB

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Name	BigchainDB  Xexclude from comparison	Ingres  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	RethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets	Well established RDBMS	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database model	Document store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store
Secondary database models				Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.77 Rank #199   Overall #32   Document stores	Score 5.88 Rank #70   Overall #39   Relational DBMS	Score 21.62 Rank #36   Overall #22   Relational DBMS	Score 3.07 Rank #99   Overall #18   Document stores
Website	www.bigchaindb.com	www.actian.com/­data-management/­ingres-sql-rdbms	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	rethinkdb.com
Technical documentation	bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest	docs.actian.com/­ingres	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	rethinkdb.com/­docs
Developer		Actian Corporation	Microsoft	The Linux Foundation since July 2017
Initial release	2016	1974 originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s	2016	2009
Current release		11.0, April 2017		2.4.1, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source AGPL v3	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	Python	C	C++	C++
Server operating systems	Linux	AIX HP Open VMS HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows	hosted	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes	yes string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available	no	no
Secondary indexes		yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	CLI Client RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API JDBC ODBC proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	Go Haskell Java JavaScript Python Ruby		C# Java PHP	C community-supported driver C# community-supported driver C++ community-supported driver Clojure community-supported driver Dart community-supported driver Erlang community-supported driver Go community-supported driver Haskell community-supported driver Java official driver JavaScript (Node.js) official driver Lisp community-supported driver Lua community-supported driver Objective-C community-supported driver Perl community-supported driver PHP community-supported driver Python official driver Ruby official driver Scala community-supported driver
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		yes	Transact SQL
Triggers		yes	no	Client-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	horizontal partitioning Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding range based
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	selectable replication factor	Ingres Replicator	yes	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	yes
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		ACID	ACID	Atomic single-document operations
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes MVCC	yes	yes MVCC based
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no		no
User concepts Access control	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes	yes users and table-level permissions
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