DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB 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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

rocksdb.org

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

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

doc.nuodb.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2015

2016

2013

1993

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

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

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

tunable commit protocol

yes

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.

yes

Temporary table

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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