DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EJDB vs. GBase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EJDB vs. GBase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	EJDB  Xexclude from comparison	GBase  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SWC-DB Super Wide Column Database  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	Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)	Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Wide column store
Secondary database models					Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.31 Rank #296   Overall #44   Document stores	Score 1.05 Rank #186   Overall #86   Relational DBMS		Score 0.08 Rank #364   Overall #13   Wide column stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb	www.gbase.cn	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db www.swcdb.org
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.md
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Softmotions	General Data Technology Co., Ltd.	Sybase, SAP	Alex Kashirin
Initial release	2016	2012	2004	1993	2020
Current release			GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c		0.5, April 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source GPLv2	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPL V3
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C	C, Java, Python		C++
Server operating systems	hosted	server-less	Linux	Linux Windows	Linux
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id	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		yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	Standard with numerous extensions	yes	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	in-process shared library	ADO.NET C API JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	Proprietary protocol Thrift
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Actionscript C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Lua Objective-C Pike Python Ruby	C#	Delphi Perl PHP	C++
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	user defined functions	yes	no
Triggers	yes	no	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	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		no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes Read/Write Locking	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 caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	EJDB	GBase	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	SWC-DB Super Wide Column Database
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