DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used RDBMS

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

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/hana

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Oracle

SAP

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2013

1980

2010

2019

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

23c, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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