DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transbase

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS		Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.postgres-xl.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation		www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group		Sybase, SAP	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	2016	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB	1993	1987
Current release		10 R1, October 2018		Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Mozilla public license	commercial	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C		C and C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux macOS	Linux Windows	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes distributed, parallel query execution	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl	Delphi Perl PHP	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	user defined functions	yes	yes
Triggers	yes	yes	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service		Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID MVCC	ACID	yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Postgres-XL	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Transbase
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