DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2 vs. SAP HANA vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2 vs. SAP HANA vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.72
Rank	#217	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	7.10
Rank	#47	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	39.10
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	99.49
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.36
Rank	#107	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.h2database.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sqlite.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

help.sap.com/hana

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Thomas Mueller

SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2016

2005

2010

2000

2017

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

SQLScript, R

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

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