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

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Name	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
		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	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 27.13 Rank #30   Overall #18   Relational DBMS
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2016	1993
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no
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Implementation language	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	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.	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no 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	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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