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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. EJDB vs. Elasticsearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. EJDB vs. Elasticsearch

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.62
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#244  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlpinot.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.pinot.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software Foundation and contributorsSoftmotionsElastic
Initial release2016201520122010
Current release1.0.0, September 20238.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherserver-lessAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCin-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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