DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HBase vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HBase vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

hbase.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2008

2010

1998

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

SQLScript, R

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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