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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Graphite vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 FlinkData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqliotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webobjectbox.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.objectbox.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software FoundationChris DavisObjectBox LimitedSiteWhere
Initial release20162018200620172010
Current release1.1.0, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native API
HTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
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 replicasnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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