DBMS > Axibase vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. YottaDB

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Name	Axibase  Xexclude from comparison	DolphinDB  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	YottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization	DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.	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	A fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
Secondary database models		Relational DBMS			Relational DBMS using the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.35 Rank #282   Overall #25   Time Series DBMS	Score 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS		Score 0.28 Rank #306   Overall #44   Key-value stores
Website	axibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­finance	www.dolphindb.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	yottadb.com
Technical documentation		docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics		yottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
Developer	Axibase Corporation	DolphinDB, Inc	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	YottaDB, LLC
Initial release	2013	2018	2016	1993	2001
Current release	15585	v2.00.4, January 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid	commercial free community version available	commercial	commercial	Open Source AGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	C++	C++		C
Server operating systems	Linux	Linux Windows	hosted	Linux Windows	Docker Linux
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string	yes	yes	yes	no
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.	no	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	SQL-like query language	yes	yes	by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methods	JDBC Proprietary protocol (Network API) RESTful HTTP API	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	PostgreSQL wire protocol using the Octo plugin Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages	Go Java PHP Python R Ruby	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP	C Go JavaScript (Node.js) Lua M Perl Python Rust
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers	yes	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	horizontal partitioning	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Source-replica replication	yes	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	yes	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	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	no	yes	ACID	ACID	optimistic locking
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control		Administrators, Users, Groups	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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	Axibase	DolphinDB	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	YottaDB
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