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DBMS > BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Teradata Aster

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitebigobject.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.MicrosoftPerconaSybase, SAPTeradata
Initial release20152016201519932005
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
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.nonononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaTransact SQLJavaScriptyesR packages
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infovia In-Memory Engineno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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