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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Informix vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Informix vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 graphAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#213  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#71  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score16.32
Rank#35  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlbangdb.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­informixrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.bangdb.comcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Rockset
Initial release20162012200819842019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202114.10.FC5, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++C, C++ and JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes, details hereyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesdynamic typing
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.yesnonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query language (GQL)yesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnousing Google App Engineyesno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)Callbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesno
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 algorithmShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
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 using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
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 modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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