DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. eXtremeDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. eXtremeDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Widely used RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	5.91
Rank	#61	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.mcobject.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

McObject

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2016

2001

1980

1992

2013

Current release

8.2, 2021

23c, September 2023

17, July 2015

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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