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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

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

terminusdb.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Spotify

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

1993

2018

2010

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

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

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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