DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Description

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

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

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

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

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

InterSystems

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Sybase, SAP

SAP

Initial release

1997

2016

1987

1993

2010

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

16.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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