DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

druid.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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