DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SingleStore vs. Solr vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SingleStore vs. Solr vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.singlestore.com

solr.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.singlestore.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

SAP

formerly Sybase

SingleStore Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

1992

2013

2006

2000

Current release

17, July 2015

8.5, January 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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