DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. Blueflood vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. Blueflood vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

pinot.apache.org

blueflood.io

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.pinot.apache.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Rackspace

Microsoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

1989

2010

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP REST

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

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

relationship in graphs

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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