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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. dBASE vs. GreptimeDB vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. dBASE vs. GreptimeDB vs. Kinetica

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons clouddBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dbase.comgreptime.comwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.greptime.comdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAmazonAsthon TateGreptime Inc.Kinetica
Initial release20162012197920222012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageRustC, C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
dBase proprietary IDEC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Pythonuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesSimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table level
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBAmazon CloudSearchdBASEGreptimeDBKinetica
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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