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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. AntDB vs. Axibase vs. Drizzle vs. TiDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financepingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedAxibase CorporationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2016201320082016
Current release155857.2.4, September 20128.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL2016 compliantSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBAntDBAxibaseDrizzleTiDB
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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