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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. WakandaDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

wakanda.github.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

wakanda.github.io/doc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1987

2012

2019

Current release

16.0

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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