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DBMS > FeatureBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquasar.aiwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsIBMMicrosoftquasardbSybase, SAP
Initial release20172017201620091993
Current release2022, May 20222.03.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLnoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modeno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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