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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	NSDb  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Adaptive Server former name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes	The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS	A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS
Secondary database models			Spatial DBMS with Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #369   Overall #40   Time Series DBMS	Score 35.09 Rank #25   Overall #17   Relational DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #371   Overall #39   Graph DBMS
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	nsdb.io	www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentation	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	nsdb.io/­Architecture	help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
Developer	Microsoft		SAP, Sybase	Transwarp
Initial release	2016	2017	1987
Current release			16.0
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	Java, Scala	C and C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux macOS	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Unix Windows
Data scheme	yes		yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes: int, bigint, decimal, string	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	no
Secondary indexes	yes	all fields are automatically indexed	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like query language	yes	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	gRPC HTTP REST WebSocket	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB Tabular Data Stream (TDS)	OpenCypher
Supported programming languages	C# Java PHP	Java Scala	C C++ Cobol Java Java Perl PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Transact SQL	no	Java and Transact-SQL
Triggers	no		yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding	horizontal partitioning	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes		Multi-source replication Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	Using Apache Lucene	yes	yes
User concepts Access control	yes		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes
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	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	NSDb	SAP Adaptive Server former name: Sybase ASE	Transwarp StellarDB
Recent citations in the news	General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News		Achieve zero RPO for your SAP ASE (Sybase) databases with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP | Amazon Web Services 7 May 2024, AWS Blog New Services for SAP HANA Cloud Database 7 April 2021, SAP News Patch SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise now to avoid takeover risk 3 June 2020, BleepingComputer AWS Launch Wizard is now available in Melbourne, Spain, and Zurich Regions 26 January 2024, AWS Blog Newly Patched SAP ASE Flaws Could Let Attackers Hack Database Servers 3 June 2020, The Hacker News provided by Google News

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