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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Pinecone

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#213  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlbangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.bangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20162012201220102019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedhostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoString, Number, Boolean
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL like support with command line toolnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnolimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)Callbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)yes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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