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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpaceTime

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.progress.com/­openedgewww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationSybase, SAPMireo
Initial release20122016198419932020
Current release29.0.1, April 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesyes infoclose to SQL 92yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Delphi
Perl
PHP
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
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.nonono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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