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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Databricks vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.databricks.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.databricks.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAlibabaDatabricksCirconus LLC.
Initial release20162016201320172014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaPython
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functions and aggregatesyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnono
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBAlibaba Cloud MaxComputeDatabricksIRONdbLokiJS
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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