DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.postgres-xl.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2016

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2001

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

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

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

MVCC

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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