DBMS > Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.progress.com/openedge

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

SAP, Sybase

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2010

1984

1987

1992

2000

Current release

V12

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

16.0

17, July 2015

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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