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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Teradata Aster

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOracles in-memory data grid solutionLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitegalaxybase.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司MicrosoftOracleSybase, SAPTeradata
Initial release20172016200719932005
Current releaseNov 20, November 202114.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C++
Java
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsTransact SQLnoyesR packages
Triggersnoyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDconfigurableACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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