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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. mSQL 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	mSQL Mini SQL  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	mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	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 1.27 Rank #169   Overall #76   Relational DBMS
Website	cachelot.io	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	hughestech.com.au/­products/­msql	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer		Microsoft	Hughes Technologies	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2015	2016	1994	1993
Current release			4.4, October 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Simplified BSD License	commercial	commercial free licenses can be provided	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C++	C
Server operating systems	FreeBSD Linux OS X	hosted	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes	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	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers	yes
APIs and other access methods	Memcached protocol	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	JDBC ODBC	.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 C++ Delphi Java Perl PHP Tcl	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Transact SQL	no	yes
Triggers	no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	none	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	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	no	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	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	no	yes	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Cachelot.io	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	mSQL Mini SQL	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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