DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. OpenTenBase vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. OpenTenBase vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

impala.apache.org

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.5, January 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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