DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bangdb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.bangdb.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DGraph Labs

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2017

2012

2016

1993

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

restricted

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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