DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. NCache vs. Oracle vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. NCache vs. Oracle vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Widely used RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database

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

Technical documentation

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

docs.datastax.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

DataStax

Alachisoft

Oracle

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2011

2005

1980

1993

Current release

6.8, April 2020

5.3.3, April 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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 (CQL); Spark SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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