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DBMS > Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sybase, SAPAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20122016200419932008
Current release3.1.3, April 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceTransact SQLyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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