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

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. HBase 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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Wide column store

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column 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

hbase.apache.org

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

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

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

2015

2008

2013

2015

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

2.3.4, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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

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