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

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticssiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperDatabricksIBMMicrosoftCesbit
Initial release2013201420162017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.yesno infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesPL/SQL, SQL PLTransact SQLno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyessimple rights management via user accounts
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DatabricksIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSiriDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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