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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

2014

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

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++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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