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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache IoTDB vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache IoTDB vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlaltibase.comiotdb.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAltibaseApache Software FoundationCCRi and others
Initial release20161999201820162014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1.0, April 20235.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaPythonScala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Native API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Shardingdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasselectable replication factordepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
depending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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