DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

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	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.hawkular.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sql.js.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

help.sap.com/hana

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Community supported by Red Hat

SAP

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2014

2010

2012

2018

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

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