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

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. EJDB vs. PieCloudDB 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)

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.openpie.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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BigObject, Inc.

Softmotions

OpenPie

SAP

Initial release

2016

2015

2012

2010

Current release

2.1, January 2023

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

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

hosted

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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