DBMS > JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite

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Name	JSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Sequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison	SpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
	JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL	Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database model	Document store Object oriented DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models					Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart		Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS		Score 0.50 Rank #258   Overall #41   Document stores #120   Relational DBMS	Score 1.63 Rank #146   Overall #3   Spatial DBMS
Website	jsqldb.org (offline)	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.sequoiadb.com	www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentation		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics		www.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index	www.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer	Konrad von Backstrom	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Sequoiadb Ltd.	Alessandro Furieri
Initial release	2018	2016	1993	2013	2008
Current release	0.8, December 2018				5.0.0, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2	Open Source MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++		C++	C++
Server operating systems	Linux macOS Windows	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux	server-less
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes	yes oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex	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.	no	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	SQL-like query language	yes
APIs and other access methods		ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net C++ Java PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	functions in JavaScript	Transact SQL	yes	JavaScript	no
Triggers	no	no	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		ACID	ACID	Document is locked during a transaction	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes using RocksDB	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.			no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no	yes
User concepts Access control		yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	simple password-based access control	no
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	JSqlDb	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Sequoiadb	SpatiaLite
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