DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Dragonfly vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Dragonfly vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

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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

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

kylin.apache.org

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

2015

2023

2013

2015

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.0, March 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Password-based authentication

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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