DBMS > jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB vs. SQLite vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB vs. SQLite vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.monetdb.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Teradata

Initial release

1991

2016

2004

2000

2005

Current release

5.7

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes, in SQL, C, R

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding via remote tables

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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