DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Altibase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Altibase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

altibase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

Technical documentation

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

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/hana

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Altibase

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

1999

2010

1998

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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