DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. JanusGraph vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. JanusGraph vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

janusgraph.org

www.progress.com/openedge

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.janusgraph.org

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

Initial release

2016

2017

1984

2014

2010

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

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

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Clojure
Java
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users and groups

yes

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