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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. STSdb

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteboilerbay.commaxdb.sap.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MicrosoftSTS Soft SC
Initial release2002198420162011
Current release4.07.9.10.12, February 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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