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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. EJDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. EJDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.md
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAlibabaSoftmotions
Initial release2016201620102012
Current release8.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGPLv2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonCC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinuxserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_id
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.yesnonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
in-process shared library
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess managed on TSDB instance levelyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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