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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB vs. XTDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

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

wakanda.github.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io/doc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

FatCloud

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Wakanda SAS

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2016

1993

2012

2019

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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