DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Cachelot.io  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Riak KV  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	In-memory caching system	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Key-value store with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.04 Rank #388   Overall #62   Key-value stores	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 4.01 Rank #79   Overall #9   Key-value stores
Website	cachelot.io	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics		www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
Developer		Microsoft	OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2015	2016	2009	1993
Current release			3.2.0, December 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Simplified BSD License	commercial	Open Source Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C++	Erlang
Server operating systems	FreeBSD Linux OS X	hosted	Linux OS X	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	no	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	restricted	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	Memcached protocol	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	HTTP API Native Erlang Interface	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby	C# Java PHP	C unofficial client library C# C++ unofficial client library Clojure unofficial client library Dart unofficial client library Erlang Go unofficial client library Groovy unofficial client library Haskell unofficial client library Java JavaScript unofficial client library Lisp unofficial client library Perl unofficial client library PHP Python Ruby Scala unofficial client library Smalltalk unofficial client library	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Transact SQL	Erlang	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding no "single point of failure"	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes	selectable replication factor	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no links between data sets can be stored	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	no	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no			no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	no	yes	yes, using Riak Security	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Cachelot.io	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Riak KV	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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