DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. ClickHouse vs. Dgraph vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. ClickHouse vs. Dgraph vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

Technical documentation

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

docs.brytlyt.io

clickhouse.com/docs

dgraph.io/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Brytlyt

Clickhouse Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2016

2006

Current release

5.0, August 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Synchronous replication via Raft

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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