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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDFox vs. SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2017

1994

2013

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

C
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

replication via a shared file system

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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