DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine 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

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sadasengine.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Amazon Web Services

SADAS s.r.l.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

1984

2021

2006

1993

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users and groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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