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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Pinot vs. Informix vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Pinot vs. Informix vs. YDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqldruid.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.pinot.apache.orginformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
ydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Yandex
Initial release20162012201519842019
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0.0, September 202314.10.FC5, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++ and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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