DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/hana

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Percona

quasardb

SAP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2008

2009

2010

2012

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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