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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. EJDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. EJDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqliotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software FoundationSoftmotionsElastic
Initial release20162018201220102023
Current release1.1.0, April 20238.6, January 20231.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)server-lessAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native API
in-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and SparknoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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