DBMS > BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2007

2016

2012

2021

2006

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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