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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sphinx vs. Warp 10

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsphinxsearch.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperMicrosoftSybase, SAPSphinx Technologies Inc.SenX
Initial release20162005199320012015
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functionsyesnoyes infoWarpScript
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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