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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Valentina Server

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.progress.com/­openedgewww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftProgress Software CorporationSybase, SAPParadigma Software
Initial release20162016198419931999
Current release5.10, January 2022OpenEdge 12.2, March 20205.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Delphi
Perl
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyesyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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