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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite vs. Trafodion

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresSpatial extension of SQLiteTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational 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
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquasar.aiwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indextrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbSybase, SAPAlessandro FurieriApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162009199320082014
Current release3.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Delphi
Perl
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnoyesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
noneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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