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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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

Description

Well established RDBMS

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.progress.com/openedge

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

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2016

1984

1993

Current release

11.2, May 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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