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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	AntDB  Xexclude from comparison	jBASE  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
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle	A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware	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	Multivalue DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.23 Rank #317   Overall #141   Relational DBMS	Score 1.49 Rank #156   Overall #3   Multivalue DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	www.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.html	www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation		docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	AsiaInfo Technologies Limited	Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP
Initial release		1991	2016	1993
Current release		5.7
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language			C++
Server operating systems		AIX Linux Windows	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	optional	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.		yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes		yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL2016 compliant	Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC MySQL protocol compliant ODBC	JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP API SOAP-based API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages		.Net Basic Jabbascript Java	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		yes	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers	yes	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	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	ACID	ACID	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.	yes	yes		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control		Access rights can be defined down to the item level	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	AntDB	jBASE	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
DB-Engines blog posts	AntDB: Answer to Database Evolution - Hyperconverged All-in-One Streaming Engine 22 June 2023,  Bei Mo, AntDB (sponsor)  show all
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