DBMS > Databricks vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

The 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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Databricks

Google

Microsoft

Oracle

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2013

2010

2016

2011

1993

Current release

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

with Databricks SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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