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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Altibase vs. Citus vs. EsgynDB vs. Galaxybase

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlaltibase.comwww.citusdata.comwww.esgyn.cngalaxybase.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.citusdata.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAltibaseEsgynChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司
Initial release20161999201020152017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20238.1, December 2018Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++, JavaC and Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesStrong typed schema
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.yesnoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL-92yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetGo
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Java Stored Proceduresuser defined procedures and functions
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication between multi datacenters
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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