DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Brytlyt vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Brytlyt vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

Technical documentation

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

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.brytlyt.io

machbase.com/dbms

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Brytlyt

Machbase

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2016

2013

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.0, August 2023

V8.0, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

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

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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