DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Oracle

SAP, Sybase

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2016

1980

1987

2020

Current release

23c, September 2023

16.0

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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