DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. AntDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. AntDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

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

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#342	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.hawkular.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

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

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2014

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

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

SQL2016 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

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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