DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

arangodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.arangodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

ArangoDB Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2014

2016

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

10 R1, October 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

since version 2.0

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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