DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. EJDB vs. GridGain vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. EJDB vs. GridGain vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gridgain.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BigObject, Inc.

Softmotions

GridGain Systems, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2016

2015

2012

2007

2010

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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 DML and DDL statements

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

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