DBMS > Derby vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Sybase, SAP

SAP

Initial release

1997

2016

1984

1993

2010

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
PHP

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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