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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. CockroachDB vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

basex.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BaseX GmbH

Cockroach Labs

Baidu

Initial release

2016

2007

2015

2018

Current release

10.7, August 2023

23.1.1, May 2023

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

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