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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splunk vs. TimesTen

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Splunk  Xexclude from comparison	TimesTen  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	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Analytics Platform for Big Data	In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Search engine	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS		Score 89.10 Rank #14   Overall #2   Search engines	Score 1.36 Rank #161   Overall #75   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.splunk.com	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview		docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk	docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Sybase, SAP	Splunk Inc.	Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release	2016	1993	2003	1998
Current release				11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial Limited free edition and free developer edition available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux OS X Solaris Windows	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 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	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	no Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	HTTP REST	JDBC ODBC ODP.NET Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Delphi Perl PHP	C# Java JavaScript PHP Python Ruby	C C++ Java PL/SQL
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes	yes	PL/SQL
Triggers	yes	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding	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	Multi-source replication	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes by means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights for users and roles	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Splunk	TimesTen
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