DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Warp 10

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	2.20
Rank	#119	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/neptune

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

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

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Google

SAP

formerly Sybase

SenX

Initial release

2016

2017

2010

1992

2015

Current release

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.