DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Memgraph vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Memgraph vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

memgraph.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

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

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Memgraph Ltd

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tencent

Initial release

2016

2017

1994

2014

2013

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication using RAFT

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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