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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectMicrosoftSybase, SAPAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release20122016199320122018
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++JavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
Java
PHP
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsTransact SQLyesnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding, horizontal partitioningnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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