DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Badger vs. DolphinDB vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Badger vs. DolphinDB vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dolphindb.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Alibaba

DGraph Labs

DolphinDB, Inc

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2018

2016

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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