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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrientDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TempoIQ

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Name	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	OrientDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	TempoIQ formerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
				TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
Description	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 21.62 Rank #36   Overall #22   Relational DBMS	Score 4.67 Rank #80   Overall #14   Document stores #5   Graph DBMS #12   Key-value stores	Score 3.59 Rank #92   Overall #48   Relational DBMS
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	orientdb.org	www.sap.com/­products/­advantage-database-server.html	tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentation	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	www.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
Developer	Microsoft	OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP	Sybase, SAP	TempoIQ
Initial release	2016	2010	1993	2012
Current release		3.1.9, February 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache version 2	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	yes
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Implementation language	C++	Java
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like query language, no joins	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes Java API RESTful HTTP/JSON API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C# Java PHP	.Net C C# C++ Clojure Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby Scala	Delphi Perl PHP	C# Java JavaScript Node.js Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Transact SQL	Java, Javascript	yes	no
Triggers	no	Hooks	yes	yes Realtime Alerts
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Multi-source replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no could be achieved with distributed queries	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes relationship in graphs	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.			no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	yes	Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	simple authentication-based access control
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	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	OrientDB	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	TempoIQ formerly TempoDB
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