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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Citus vs. Hyprcubd vs. PostGIS

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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.

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

www.citusdata.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

docs.citusdata.com

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2005

Current release

8.1, December 2018

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

gRPC (https)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

token access

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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