DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J 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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rdf4j.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2017

2016

2004

1993

Current release

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Java
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

none

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

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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