DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.exasol.com

www.gridgain.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Exasol

GridGain Systems, Inc.

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2000

2007

2010

1994

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes (replicated cache)

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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