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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Dolt

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#128	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#201	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

drill.apache.org

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.dolthub.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation

DoltHub Inc

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++

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

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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