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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Ingres vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Ingres vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 graphA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Well established RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlbangdb.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.bangdb.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleActian Corporation
Initial release2016201220171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.2, May 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++CC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL like support with command line toolyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesyes
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 algorithmShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioning
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 with 3 replicas for regional instances.Ingres Replicator
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoMVCCyes
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 modenonono
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)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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