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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
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Score	1.39
Rank	#150	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	15.00
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

geode.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Databend Labs

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

Initial release

2021

2002

2016

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

yes

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

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