DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sqlite.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2016

1987

2000

2003

Current release

16.0

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

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++

C and C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java and Transact-SQL

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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