DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrigoDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrigoDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

hsqldb.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

origodb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

origodb.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2001

1989

2009

under the name LiveDB

2016

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

none

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

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

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