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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	OrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				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	A fully ACID in-memory object graph database	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store Object oriented DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.06 Rank #380   Overall #50   Document stores #19   Object oriented DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	origodb.com	www.postgres-xl.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	origodb.com/­docs	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Developer	Microsoft	Robert Friberg et al		Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2016	2009 under the name LiveDB	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB	1993
Current release			10 R1, October 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source	Open Source Mozilla public license	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C#	C
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux macOS	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	User defined using .NET types and collections	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 can be achieved using .NET	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	yes distributed, parallel query execution	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API HTTP API LINQ	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C# Java PHP	.Net	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Transact SQL	yes	user defined functions	yes
Triggers	no	yes Domain Events	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	horizontal partitioning client side managed; servers are not synchronized	horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Source-replica 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	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		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	depending on model	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID MVCC	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes Write ahead log	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	yes	Role based authorization	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	OrigoDB	Postgres-XL	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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			SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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