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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqldrill.apache.orgbangdb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBMicrosoft
Initial release2016201220122016
Current release1.20.3, January 2023BangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL like support with command line toolyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoTransact SQL
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, run db with in-memory only mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceyes (enterprise version only)yes

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