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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase vs. OpenEdge

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.The 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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.enterprisedb.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAlibabaEnterpriseDBCommunity supported by Red HatEmbarcaderoProgress Software Corporation
Initial release2005201419841984
Current release14, December 2021InterBase 2020, December 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyesyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
Triggersyesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLEDB PostgresHawkular MetricsInterbaseOpenEdge
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