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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAnalytic DBMS for HadoopBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#213  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlimpala.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMicrosoft
Initial release2016201320162015
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++Python
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyesyes infousing Azure authentication

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