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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. mSQL vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Microsoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison	mSQL Mini SQL  Xexclude from comparison	Newts  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 Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets	mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS	Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Wide column store	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.04 Rank #77   Overall #6   Wide column stores	Score 1.27 Rank #169   Overall #76   Relational DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #375   Overall #41   Time Series DBMS
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables	hughestech.com.au/­products/­msql	opennms.github.io/­newts	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation			github.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
Developer	Microsoft	Hughes Technologies	OpenNMS Group	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2012	1994	2014	1993
Current release		4.4, October 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free licenses can be provided	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C	Java
Server operating systems	hosted	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows	Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free	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	no	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP API	JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST Java API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	.Net C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby	C C++ Delphi Java Perl PHP Tcl	Java	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	yes
Triggers	no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding based on Cassandra	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	none	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	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	none	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	optimistic locking	no	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	no	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	no	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures	no	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Microsoft Azure Table Storage	mSQL Mini SQL	Newts	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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