DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
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Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational 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 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	google.github.io/­lovefield	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Google	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2016	2014	2016	1993
Current release		2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		JavaScript	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC		ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	JavaScript	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers	yes	Using read-only observers	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	yes	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
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	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes using MemoryDB		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Lovefield	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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