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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. NCache vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.55
Rank	#278	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	1.15
Rank	#211	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	3.86
Rank	#98	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Alachisoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2016

2005

1984

Current release

5.3, September 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica 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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users and groups

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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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