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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
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 virtualizationGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.gridgain.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.sadasengine.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftSADAS s.r.l.Sybase, SAP
Initial release20182007201620061993
Current release2.3, January 2021GridGain 8.5.18.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQLnoyes
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes (replicated cache)yesnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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