DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FatDB vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FatDB vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Transbase

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

FatCloud

Huawei and openGauss community

SAP

formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2012

2019

1992

1987

Current release

3.0, March 2022

17, July 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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