DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Stardog

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Stardog  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	DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS RDF store
Secondary database models		Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS		Score 2.07 Rank #122   Overall #11   Graph DBMS #6   RDF stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.dolphindb.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.stardog.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html		docs.stardog.com
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	DolphinDB, Inc	Sybase, SAP	Stardog-Union
Initial release	2016	2018	1993	2010
Current release		v2.00.4, January 2022		7.3.0, May 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free community version available	commercial	commercial 60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++		Java
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux Windows	Linux macOS Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	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 Import/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like query language	yes	Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	GraphQL query language HTTP API Jena RDF API OWL RDF4J API Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SNARL SPARQL Spring Data Stardog Studio TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net Clojure Groovy Java JavaScript Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes	yes	user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggers	yes	no	yes	yes via event handlers
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	horizontal partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	yes relationships in graphs
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	yes	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	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	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Administrators, Users, Groups	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights for users and roles
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	DolphinDB	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Stardog
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