DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. WakandaDB

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

basex.org

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2007

1989

2012

Current release

11.0, June 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

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

RESTful HTTP API

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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