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

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

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Tkrzw Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Key-value store Wide column store	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
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 0.07 Rank #372   Overall #57   Key-value stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	cloud.google.com/­bigtable	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	dbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	cloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Google	Sybase, SAP	Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release	2016	2015	1993	2020
Current release				0.9.3, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no
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Implementation language				C++
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux macOS
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	yes	no
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	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	gRPC (using protocol buffers) API HappyBase (Python library) HBase compatible API (Java)	.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	Delphi Perl PHP	C++ Java Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	yes	no
Triggers	yes	no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding	none	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	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no	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	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	no
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	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	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	yes using specific database classes
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	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Google Cloud Bigtable	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Tkrzw Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Recent citations in the news	Alibaba Cloud upgrades AnalyticDB with vector database engine 25 July 2023, CloudTech News Two Critical Flaws Found in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL Databases 20 April 2023, The Hacker News Two critical vulnerabilities spotted in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL databases 21 April 2023, TEISS Experts disclosed two critical flaws in Alibaba cloud database services 20 April 2023, Security Affairs Alibaba Cloud to spur AI innovation with upcoming Singapore hackathon in March 21 February 2024, KrASIA provided by Google News	Google's AI-First Strategy Brings Vector Support To Cloud Databases 1 March 2024, Forbes Google Introduces Autoscaling for Cloud Bigtable for Optimizing Costs 31 January 2022, InfoQ.com Google scales up Cloud Bigtable NoSQL database 27 January 2022, TechTarget Google introduces Cloud Bigtable managed NoSQL database to process data at scale 6 May 2015, VentureBeat Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, A Highly Scalable And Performant NoSQL Database 6 May 2015, TechCrunch provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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