DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. ReductStore vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. ReductStore vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparison	ReductStore  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.	Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Key-value store Wide column store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 3.15 Rank #95   Overall #14   Key-value stores #8   Wide column stores	Score 0.05 Rank #384   Overall #44   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	cloud.google.com/­bigtable	github.com/­reductstore www.reduct.store	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	cloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs	www.reduct.store/­docs
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Google	ReductStore LLC	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2016	2015	2023	1993
Current release			1.9, March 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Business Source License 1.1	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no
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Implementation language			C++, Rust
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	Docker Linux macOS Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free		yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no		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	no		no
Secondary indexes	yes	no		yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no		yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	gRPC (using protocol buffers) API HappyBase (Python library) HBase compatible API (Java)	HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python	C++ JavaScript (Node.js) Python Rust	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no		yes
Triggers	yes	no		yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding		none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones		Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes		no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no		yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	Atomic single-row operations		ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes		yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes		yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Google Cloud Bigtable	ReductStore	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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