DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Cachelot.io vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Cachelot.io vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

In-memory caching system

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bangdb.com

cachelot.io

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

docs.datastax.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

DataStax

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2011

2018

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

6.8, April 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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