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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

nsdb.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Hughes Technologies

Progress Software Corporation

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

1994

2017

1984

Current release

4.4, October 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Users and groups

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