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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperDatabricksGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMMicrosoft
Initial release2013200420142016
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyes
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesyesno infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C#Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsPL/SQL, SQL PLTransact SQL
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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DatabricksGBaseIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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