DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	BaseX  Xexclude from comparison	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.	DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Native XML DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 1.84 Rank #135   Overall #4   Native XML DBMS	Score 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	basex.org	www.dolphindb.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	docs.basex.org	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	BaseX GmbH	DolphinDB, Inc	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2016	2007	2018	1993
Current release		11.0, June 2024	v2.00.4, January 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source BSD license	commercial free community version available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no XQuery supports types	yes	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		no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	SQL-like query language	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	Java API RESTful HTTP API RESTXQ WebDAV XML:DB XQJ	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Actionscript C C# Haskell Java JavaScript Node.js Lisp Perl PHP Python Qt Rebol Ruby Scala Visual Basic	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes	yes	yes
Triggers	yes	yes via events	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	multiple readers, single writer	yes	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels	Administrators, Users, Groups	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	BaseX	DolphinDB	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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