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

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.20
Rank	#325	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2017

2016

1993

2001

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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