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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchsurrealdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAlibabaElasticSurrealDB LtdTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2016201020221987
Current release8.6, January 2023v1.5.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Sourcecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaRustC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDyes
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.noyesMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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