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

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 warehousingA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesTime Series DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAlibabaCirconus LLC.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20162016201720142019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoString, Number, Boolean
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP APIJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptPython
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javayes, 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 serviceconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate 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 dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnono

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