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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. FeatureBase vs. Greenplum vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. FeatureBase vs. Greenplum vs. Machbase Neo

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.enterprisedb.comwww.featurebase.comgreenplum.orgmachbase.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.featurebase.comdocs.greenplum.orgmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffEnterpriseDBMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsPivotal Software Inc.Machbase
Initial release20142005201720052013
Current release14, December 20212022, May 20227.0.0, September 2023V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCGoC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL queriesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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