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

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Name

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector 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	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

spotify.github.io/heroic

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Spotify

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2023

2014

2015

2016

1993

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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