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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. VoltDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.voltdb.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.voltdb.com

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Microsoft

Oracle

VoltDB Inc.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2016

2007

2010

2017

Current release

14.1, August 2023

11.3, April 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

for development

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

only a subset of SQL 99

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Java

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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