DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database model	Relational DBMS a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.84 Rank #209   Overall #98   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS		Score 0.07 Rank #371   Overall #39   Graph DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcompute	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcompute	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Alibaba	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Transwarp
Initial release	2016	2016	1993
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no
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Implementation language		C++
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	yes	yes	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	Fluentd Flume MaxCompute Console	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	OpenCypher
Supported programming languages	Java	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions in Java	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no 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	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes
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	Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Transwarp StellarDB
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