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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. HBase vs. InfinityDB vs. Kdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
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 warehousingWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesWide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputehbase.apache.orgboilerbay.comkx.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualcode.kx.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBoiler Bay Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20162016200820022000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release2.3.4, January 20214.03.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaq
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javayes infoCoprocessors in Javanouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnorights management via user accounts
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBAlibaba Cloud MaxComputeHBaseInfinityDBKdb
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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