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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Greenplum vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Microsofts relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
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Score	0.61
Rank	#212	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	12.21
Rank	#41	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	1022.93
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

greenplum.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/35387.htm

docs.greenplum.org

docs.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Pivotal Software Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2005

1989

Current release

6.7.1, April 2020

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
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

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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