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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	GeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison	HyperSQL also known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
Description	GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.	Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java also known as HSQLDB	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
Primary database model	Spatial DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.75 Rank #204   Overall #3   Spatial DBMS	Score 5.44 Rank #75   Overall #41   Relational DBMS	Score 21.62 Rank #36   Overall #22   Relational DBMS	Score 3.59 Rank #92   Overall #48   Relational DBMS
Website	www.geomesa.org	hsqldb.org	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/­products/­advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html	hsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	CCRi and others		Microsoft	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2014	2001	2016	1993
Current release	3.2.0, April 2021	2.6.1, October 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache License 2.0	Open Source based on BSD license	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	Scala	Java	C++
Server operating systems		All OS with a Java VM Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods		HTTP API JDBC via HTTP JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages		All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC Java	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Java, SQL	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers	no	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	depending on storage layer	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	depending on storage layer	none	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	depending on storage layer	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no 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	no	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	depending on storage layer	yes		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	yes depending on the DBMS used for storage	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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