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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HarperDB vs. Pinecone vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A managed, cloud-native vector database

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

Primary database model

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	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.harperdb.io

www.pinecone.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

HarperDB

Pinecone Systems, Inc

SAP

Initial release

2016

2017

2019

2010

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

String, Number, Boolean

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-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 rights for users and roles

yes

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