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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak TS

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Bangdb  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	Riak TS  Xexclude from comparison
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	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store Graph DBMS Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS
Secondary database models		Spatial DBMS	Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.16 Rank #338   Overall #47   Document stores #32   Graph DBMS #31   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS	Score 0.28 Rank #307   Overall #27   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	bangdb.com	www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	docs.bangdb.com	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation	www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Sachin Sinha, BangDB		Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release	2016	2012	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB	2015
Current release		BangDB 2.0, October 2021	10 R1, October 2018	3.0.0, September 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source BSD 3	Open Source Mozilla public license	Open Source
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C, C++	C	Erlang
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	Linux macOS	Linux OS X
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events	yes	no
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	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial	yes	restricted
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL like support with command line tool	yes distributed, parallel query execution	yes, limited
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects	HTTP API Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C C# C++ Java Python	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl	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
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	user defined functions	Erlang
Triggers	yes	yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)	yes	yes pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
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	horizontal partitioning	Sharding
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)		selectable replication factor
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	yes
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	no links between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID MVCC	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes, optimistic concurrency control	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes, run db with in-memory only mode	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes (enterprise version only)	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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