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DBMS > FeatureBase vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Well established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsActian CorporationMicrosoftSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20161992
Current release2022, May 202211.2, May 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatoryesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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