DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. OpenEdge

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Name

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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BaseX GmbH

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2016

2007

2010

1984

Current release

10.7, August 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

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

multiple readers, single writer

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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 on 4 levels

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users and groups

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