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DBMS > Databricks vs. Galaxybase vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Galaxybase vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score102.66
Rank#12  Overall
#2  Document stores
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#41  Graph DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#239  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score14.22
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comgalaxybase.comwww.graphengine.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperDatabricksChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司MicrosoftMicrosoft
Initial release2013201720102016
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC and Java.NET and CC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux.NEThosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)Strong typed schemayesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Go
Java
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined procedures and functionsyesTransact SQL
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnono 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 dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes

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