DBMS > chDB vs. Heroic vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Heroic vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	chDB  Xexclude from comparison	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	Infobright  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
					SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse	Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch	High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend	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	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.07 Rank #376   Overall #158   Relational DBMS	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS	Score 1.02 Rank #192   Overall #90   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	github.com/­chdb-io/­chdb	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	doc.chdb.io	spotify.github.io/­heroic		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer		Spotify	Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2023	2014	2005	2016	1993
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		Java	C	C++
Server operating systems	server-less		Linux Windows	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme		schema-free	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 via Elasticsearch	no Knowledge Grid Technology used instead	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)	no	yes	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods		HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Bun C C++ Go JavaScript (Node.js) Python Rust		.Net C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Haskell Java Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		no	no	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers		no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	Source-replica replication	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity		no	no	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.		no	yes		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control			fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	chDB	Heroic	Infobright	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
Recent citations in the news		Review: Google Bigtable scales with ease 7 September 2016, InfoWorld provided by Google News		General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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