DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. gStore vs. JSqlDb vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. gStore vs. JSqlDb vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	gStore  Xexclude from comparison	JSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison	Oracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
			JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.	JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives		Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS RDF store	Document store Object oriented DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.14 Rank #342   Overall #34   Graph DBMS #16   RDF stores		Score 1.14 Rank #178   Overall #80   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	en.gstore.cn	jsqldb.org (offline)	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	en.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs		www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group		Konrad von Backstrom	Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2016	2016	2018	1984	1993
Current release		1.2, November 2023	0.8, December 2018	7.4.1.1, 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source BSD	Open Source	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	Linux macOS Windows	HP Open VMS	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support	schema-free	Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	yes	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	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes		no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	HTTP API SPARQL 1.1			.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python	JavaScript		Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes	functions in JavaScript		yes
Triggers	yes		no		yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service		none		none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service		none		Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency			Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes		no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	yes		yes, on a single node	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes		yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes using RocksDB	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no		no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported			fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	gStore	JSqlDb	Oracle Rdb	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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