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DBMS > Heroic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  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.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchCloud-based data warehousing serviceElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
DeveloperSpotifyIBMMicrosoftAmazon Web ServicesSybase, SAP
Initial release20142014201620211993
Current release2.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLTransact SQLyesyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesyesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno 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 datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
HeroicIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseOpenSearchSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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