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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiriDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	LeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	SiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Open Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.36 Rank #280   Overall #40   Key-value stores #129   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #378   Overall #42   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.leanxcale.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	siridb.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	docs.siridb.com
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	LeanXcale	Microsoft	Cesbit
Initial release	2016	2015	2016	2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	Open Source MIT License
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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Implementation language			C++	C
Server operating systems	hosted		hosted	Linux
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes		yes	yes Numeric data
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
Secondary indexes	yes		yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes through Apache Derby	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	JDBC Kafka Connector ODBC proprietary key/value interface Spark Connector	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C Java Scala	C# Java PHP	C C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python R
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes		Transact SQL	no
Triggers	yes		no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service		Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service		yes	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	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	yes	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes		yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard		yes	simple rights management via user accounts
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	LeanXcale	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SiriDB
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