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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ScyllaDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ScyllaDB vs. Titan

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.scylladb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupSoftmotionsMicrosoftScyllaDBAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162012201620152012
Current releaseScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++C++Java
Server operating systemshostedserver-lesshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoTransact SQLyes, Luayes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBEJDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseScyllaDBTitan
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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