DBMS > DataFS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza

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Name	DataFS  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SwayDB  Xexclude from comparison	Yanza  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.		Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.	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	An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage	Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database model	Object oriented DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Time Series DBMS
Secondary database models	Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.09 Rank #360   Overall #17   Object oriented DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS		Score 0.04 Rank #387   Overall #61   Key-value stores
Website	newdatabase.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	swaydb.simer.au	yanza.com
Technical documentation	dev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xsp	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Mobiland AG	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Simer Plaha	Yanza
Initial release	2018	2016	1993	2018	2015
Current release	1.1.263, October 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	Open Source GNU Affero GPL V3.0	commercial free version available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no	no but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation language		C++		Scala
Server operating systems	Windows	hosted	Linux Windows		Windows
Data scheme	Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)	yes	yes	schema-free	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	no	no
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	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	no	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	no	no
APIs and other access methods	.NET Client API Proprietary client DLL WinRT client	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB		HTTP API
Supported programming languages	.Net C C# C++ VB.Net	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP	Java Kotlin Scala	any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		Transact SQL	yes	no	no
Triggers	no, except callback-events from server when changes happened	no	yes	no	yes Timer and event based
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Proprietary Sharding system	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	Atomic execution of operations	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	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	yes
User concepts Access control	Windows-Profile	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	no
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	DataFS	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	SwayDB	Yanza
Recent citations in the news		General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, azure.microsoft.com Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, azure.microsoft.com Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB: New Analytics Capabilities 10 November 2023, InfoQ.com provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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