DBMS > Alibaba Cloud HybridDB vs. GBase vs. PostgreSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud HybridDB vs. GBase vs. PostgreSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VoltDB

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Name

GBase seems to be discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

HybridDB is an online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Widely used open source RDBMS info

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS info

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS info

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#234	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	503.37
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	5.40
Rank	#59	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#126	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.gbase.cn

www.postgresql.org

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

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/35387.htm

www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

PostgreSQL Global Development Group info

www.postgresql.org/developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

1992

2010

Current release

GBase 8a

12.1, November 2019

17, July 2015

9.0, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

BSD

commercial

Open Source info

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X info

for development

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java info

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

C#
C++
Erlang info

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions info

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

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

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

none

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Master-slave replication info

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Master-slave replication info

Database mirroring

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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