DBMS > Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Widely used open source RDBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP, Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2005

2016

1995

1987

2011

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

16.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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