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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. XTDB

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Name	Microsoft Azure AI Search  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	XTDB formerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
			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	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database model	Search engine	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store
Secondary database models	Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 5.52 Rank #59   Overall #6   Search engines	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS		Score 0.18 Rank #332   Overall #46   Document stores
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb www.xtdb.com
Technical documentation	learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics		www.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer	Microsoft	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Juxt Ltd.
Initial release	2015	2016	1993	2019
Current release	V1			1.19, September 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	Open Source MIT License
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no
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Implementation language		C++		Clojure
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	Linux Windows	All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM Linux
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes, extensible-data-notation format
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
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	HTTP REST JDBC
Supported programming languages	C# Java JavaScript Python	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP	Clojure Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Transact SQL	yes	no
Triggers	no	no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate 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
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	yes using Azure authentication	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Microsoft Azure AI Search	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	XTDB formerly named Crux
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