DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DataFS vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DataFS vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	DataFS  Xexclude from comparison	EsgynDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  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	All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.	Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Object oriented DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.09 Rank #360   Overall #17   Object oriented DBMS	Score 0.25 Rank #312   Overall #138   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	newdatabase.com	www.esgyn.cn	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	dev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xsp		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Mobiland AG	Esgyn	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2016	2018	2015	2016	1993
Current release		1.1.263, October 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language			C++, Java	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Windows	Linux	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	yes	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API Proprietary client DLL WinRT client	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	.Net C C# C++ VB.Net	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes		Java Stored Procedures	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers	yes	no, except callback-events from server when changes happened	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Proprietary Sharding system	Sharding	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service		Multi-source replication between multi datacenters	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	yes	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Windows-Profile	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	DataFS	EsgynDB	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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