DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL

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Name

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

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.sadasengine.com

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

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

SADAS s.r.l.

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2006

1993

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

8.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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 DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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