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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#325  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.kinetica.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDGraph LabsKineticaMicrosoftSybase, SAP
Initial release20172012201620051993
Current release7.1, August 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++C++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsTransact SQLuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno 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 datanonoACIDACIDACID
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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