DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.progress.com/openedge

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

1984

2014

2003

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

close to SQL 92

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

optimistic locking

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users and groups

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

Access rights for users and roles

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