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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. EDB Postgres vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. EDB Postgres vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.enterprisedb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsEnterpriseDBFatCloudMicrosoftSybase, SAP
Initial release20182005201220161993
Current release2.3, January 202114, December 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCC#C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
WindowshostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes infostandard with numerous extensionsno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryesyes
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#C#
Java
PHP
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infovia applicationsTransact SQLyes
Triggersnoyesyes infovia applicationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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