DBMS > Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenQM vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenQM vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Warp 10

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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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

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

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/hana

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Sybase, SAP

SAP

SenX

Initial release

2016

1993

2010

2015

Current release

3.4-12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

none

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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