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

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Name	gStore  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Sadas Engine  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	A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Graph DBMS RDF store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.14 Rank #342   Overall #34   Graph DBMS #16   RDF stores	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #373   Overall #157   Relational DBMS
Website	en.gstore.cn	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sadasengine.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	en.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	www.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
Developer		Microsoft	SADAS s.r.l.	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2016	2016	2006	1993
Current release	1.2, November 2023		8.0
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source BSD	commercial	commercial free trial version available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C++	C++
Server operating systems	Linux	hosted	AIX Linux Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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	no	no
Secondary indexes		yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API SPARQL 1.1	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python	C# Java PHP	.Net C C# C++ Groovy Java PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	Transact SQL	no	yes
Triggers		no	no	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	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	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	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	ACID		ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		yes managed by 'Learn by Usage'	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported	yes	Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	gStore	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Sadas Engine	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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