DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Axibase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Axibase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.hawkular.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

Community supported by Red Hat

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

2018

Current release

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java
Python

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic execution of operations

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

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