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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RDFox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VoltDB

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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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

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

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Microsoft

Percona

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Sybase, SAP

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2017

1993

2010

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

6.0, Septermber 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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