DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EventStoreDB vs. FileMaker vs. GBase vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EventStoreDB vs. FileMaker vs. GBase vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.eventstore.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gbase.cn

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Event Store Limited

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP

Initial release

2016

2012

1983

2004

2010

Current release

21.2, February 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

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