DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Doris vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Doris vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

1987

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

JDBC
MySQL client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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