DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splice Machine

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Name

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

Spatial extension of H2

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.h2gis.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

spotify.github.io/heroic

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

CNRS

Spotify

Sybase, SAP

Splice Machine

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

1993

2014

Current release

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on H2

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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