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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EXASOL vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EXASOL vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsOpen Source Time Series DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.62
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#346  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.exasol.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsiridb.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.exasol.com/­resourceshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.siridb.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupExasolSAP, formerly SybaseCesbitSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20162000199420172014
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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