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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Bangdb vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Bangdb vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorabangdb.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.bangdb.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDB
Initial release20142016201520122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesSQL like support with command line toolyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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