DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebird vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebird vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.firebirdsql.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

help.sap.com/hana

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Firebird Foundation

SAP

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

2001

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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