DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. AntDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. AntDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Kinetica

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Kinetica
Initial release2016201920122012
Current release7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC, C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL2016 compliantnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functions
TriggersyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes 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 servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDyesno
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.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and roles on table level

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBAmazon DocumentDBAntDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseKinetica
DB-Engines blog posts

AntDB: Answer to Database Evolution - Hyperconverged All-in-One Streaming Engine
22 June 2023,  Bei Mo, AntDB (sponsor) 

show all

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Two Critical Flaws Found in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL Databases
20 April 2023, The Hacker News

Accidental ‘write’ Permissions In Alibaba PostgreSQL Let Attackers Access Sensitive Data
22 April 2023, GBHackers

Two critical vulnerabilities spotted in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL databases
21 April 2023, TEISS

Alibaba Cloud to spur AI innovation with upcoming Singapore hackathon in March | KrASIA
21 February 2024, KrASIA

How Data Analytics Capabilities of Alibaba Group Evolve Its Ecosystem to the Cloud
20 February 2021, DataDrivenInvestor

provided by Google News

AWS announces Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service
16 May 2024, AWS Blog

A hybrid approach for homogeneous migration to an Amazon DocumentDB elastic cluster | Amazon Web Services
4 June 2024, AWS Blog

Use LangChain and vector search on Amazon DocumentDB to build a generative AI chatbot | Amazon Web Services
20 May 2024, AWS Blog

Vector search for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now generally available | Amazon Web Services
29 November 2023, AWS Blog

AWS announces vector search for Amazon DocumentDB
29 November 2023, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go?
8 March 2024, Appinventiv

Atos cybersecurity blog: Misconfigured Firebase: A real-time cyber threat
18 January 2024, Atos

Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase
18 March 2024, The Register

Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps
14 May 2024, TechCrunch

Google Firebase may have exposed 125M records from misconfigurations
19 March 2024, SC Media

provided by Google News

Kinetica Elevates RAG with Fast Access to Real-Time Data
26 March 2024, Datanami

Kinetica ramps up RAG for generative AI, empowering enterprises with real-time operational data
18 March 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Kinetica Launches Generative AI Solution for Real-Time Inferencing Powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise
18 March 2024, GlobeNewswire

Transforming spatiotemporal data analysis with GPUs and generative AI
30 October 2023, InfoWorld

Kinetica Delivers Real-Time Vector Similarity Search
22 March 2024, Geospatial World

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here