DBMS > gStore vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB

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Name	gStore  Xexclude from comparison	Heroic  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	SwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.	Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch	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	An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database model	Graph DBMS RDF store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.14 Rank #342   Overall #34   Graph DBMS #16   RDF stores	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS		Score 0.04 Rank #387   Overall #61   Key-value stores
Website	en.gstore.cn	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentation	en.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs	spotify.github.io/­heroic	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer		Spotify	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Simer Plaha
Initial release	2016	2014	2016	1993	2018
Current release	1.2, November 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source BSD	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial	Open Source GNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	Java	C++		Scala
Server operating systems	Linux		hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support	schema-free	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
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	no
Secondary indexes		yes via Elasticsearch	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API SPARQL 1.1	HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python		C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP	Java Kotlin Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	Transact SQL	yes	no
Triggers		no	no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	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 docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	no	ACID	ACID	Atomic execution of operations
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported		yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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	gStore	Heroic	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	SwayDB
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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