DBMS > Linter vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenQM vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Linter vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenQM vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Valentina Server

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Name	Linter  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	OpenQM also called QM  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Valentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	RDBMS for high security requirements	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Object-relational database and reports server
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Multivalue DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.12 Rank #350   Overall #152   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.34 Rank #284   Overall #10   Multivalue DBMS		Score 0.21 Rank #325   Overall #144   Relational DBMS
Website	linter.ru	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentation		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics			valentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
Developer	relex.ru	Microsoft	Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips	Sybase, SAP	Paradigma Software
Initial release	1990	2016	1993	1993	1999
Current release			3.4-12		5.7.5
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPLv2, extended commercial license available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C and C++	C++
Server operating systems	AIX Android BSD HP Open VMS iOS Linux OS X VxWorks Windows	hosted	AIX FreeBSD Linux macOS Raspberry Pi Solaris Windows	Linux Windows	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes with some exceptions	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes		yes	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	yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC LINQ ODBC OLE DB Oracle Call Interface (OCI)	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	ODBC
Supported programming languages	C C# C++ Java Perl PHP Python Qt Ruby Tcl	C# Java PHP	.Net Basic C Java Objective C PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net C C# C++ Objective-C PHP Ruby Visual Basic Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL	Transact SQL	yes	yes	yes
Triggers	yes	no	yes	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	yes	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Source-replica replication	yes	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
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	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	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	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes	Access rights can be defined down to the item level	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Linter	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	OpenQM also called QM	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Valentina Server
Recent citations in the news		Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, azure.microsoft.com Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB: New Analytics Capabilities 10 November 2023, InfoQ.com provided by Google News		SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News	A Look at Valentina — SitePoint 18 April 2014, SitePoint MySQL GUI Tools for Windows and Ubuntu/Linux: Top 8 free or open source 7 December 2018, H2S Media provided by Google News

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