DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ArcadeDB vs. Databend vs. H2GIS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ArcadeDB vs. Databend vs. H2GIS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	ArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparison	Databend  Xexclude from comparison	H2GIS  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten	An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity	Spatial extension of H2	Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Time Series DBMS in next version	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models				Relational DBMS	Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.10 Rank #358   Overall #48   Document stores #38   Graph DBMS #52   Key-value stores #35   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.34 Rank #283   Overall #130   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #368   Overall #7   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.12 Rank #348   Overall #151   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	arcadedb.com	github.com/­datafuselabs/­databend www.databend.com	www.h2gis.org	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	docs.arcadedb.com	docs.databend.com	www.h2gis.org/­docs/­home	docs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Arcade Data	Databend Labs	CNRS	Transwarp
Initial release	2016	2021	2021	2013
Current release		September 2021	1.0.59, April 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	Open Source LGPL 3.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	Rust	Java
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java VM	hosted Linux macOS
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes	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	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like query language, no joins	yes	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	JDBC MongoDB API OpenCypher PostgreSQL wire protocol Redis API RESTful HTTP/JSON API TinkerPop Gremlin	CLI Client JDBC RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Java	Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python Rust	Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes		no	yes based on H2
Triggers	yes		no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service		none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Source-replica replication	none	yes based on H2
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes relationship in graphs	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	yes	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no			yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard		Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles	yes based on H2
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	ArcadeDB	Databend	H2GIS	Transwarp ArgoDB
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