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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ArcadeDB vs. Riak TS vs. SpaceTime

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	ArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparison	Riak TS  Xexclude from comparison	SpaceTime  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	Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV	SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Time Series DBMS in next version	Time Series DBMS	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models				Relational DBMS
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 0.28 Rank #307   Overall #27   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.03 Rank #392   Overall #8   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	arcadedb.com		www.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	docs.arcadedb.com	www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Arcade Data	Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies	Mireo
Initial release	2016	2021	2015	2020
Current release		September 2021	3.0.0, September 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	Open Source	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	Erlang	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java VM	Linux OS X	Linux
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	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	restricted	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like query language, no joins	yes, limited	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	JDBC MongoDB API OpenCypher PostgreSQL wire protocol Redis API RESTful HTTP/JSON API TinkerPop Gremlin	HTTP API Native Erlang Interface	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Java	C unofficial client library C# C++ unofficial client library Clojure unofficial client library Dart unofficial client library Erlang Go unofficial client library Groovy unofficial client library Haskell unofficial client library Java JavaScript unofficial client library Lisp unofficial client library Perl unofficial client library PHP Python Ruby Scala unofficial client library Smalltalk unofficial client library	C# C++ Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes		Erlang	no
Triggers	yes		yes pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service		Sharding	Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Source-replica replication	selectable replication factor	Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes relationship in graphs	no links between datasets can be stored	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no			no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard		no	yes
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	ArcadeDB	Riak TS	SpaceTime
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