DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

Primary database model

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	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.citusdata.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

docs.citusdata.com

docs.heavy.ai

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP

Initial release

2010

2016

1984

2010

Current release

8.1, December 2018

5.10, January 2022

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

HP Open VMS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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