DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	BigObject  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp StellarDB  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	Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.19 Rank #329   Overall #146   Relational DBMS		Score 0.07 Rank #371   Overall #39   Graph DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	bigobject.io	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	docs.bigobject.io
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	BigObject, Inc.	Sybase, SAP	Transwarp
Initial release	2016	2015	1993
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free community edition available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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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)	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	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
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	yes	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	fluentd ODBC RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	OpenCypher
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R		Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	Lua	yes
Triggers	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	none	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	none	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes automatically between fact table and dimension tables	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)	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	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	BigObject	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Transwarp StellarDB
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