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

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Name

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store

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Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

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

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

1993

1994

2016

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
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

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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