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

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

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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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#175	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

kylin.apache.org

machbase.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

kylin.apache.org/docs

machbase.com/dbms

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Machbase

Facebook, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

V8.0, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

yes

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