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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. MaxDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

maxdb.sap.com

objectbox.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.objectbox.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

ObjectBox Limited

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1984

2017

2013

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple password-based access control

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