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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.63
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score2.08
Rank#132  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score23.95
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score37.49
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.datomic.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.datomic.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.io/­Architecturehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)CognitectMicrosoftSAP, Sybase
Initial release20122012201620171987
Current release1.0.6735, June 202316.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJava, ClojureC++Java, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
Java
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonyes infoTransaction FunctionsTransact SQLnoJava and Transact-SQL
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding, horizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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