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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	PostGIS  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
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	Spatial extension of PostgreSQL	A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Graph DBMS
Secondary database models			Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 21.72 Rank #29   Overall #1   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #371   Overall #39   Graph DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	postgis.net	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	postgis.net/­documentation
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Microsoft		Transwarp
Initial release	2016	2016	2005
Current release			3.4.2, February 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPL v2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	C
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	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	yes
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	yes	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC		OpenCypher
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C# Java PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	Transact SQL	user defined functions
Triggers	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	yes based on PostgreSQL	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes	yes based on PostgreSQL
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	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
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes	yes based on PostgreSQL	yes
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	PostGIS	Transwarp StellarDB
DB-Engines blog posts			Spatial database management systems 6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann show all
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