DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Pinecone

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Description

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

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

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

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Microsoft

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2016

2023

1989

2019

Current release

1.0, March 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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