DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. YTsaurus

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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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	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

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

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Alibaba

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2014

2013

2023

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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
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

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access Control Lists

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