DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Cassandra vs. EJDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Cassandra vs. EJDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

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

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Softmotions

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2008

2012

1993

2023

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

in-process shared library

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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