DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. JSqlDb vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. JSqlDb vs. RRDtool

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#124	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

jsqldb.org (offline)

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BaseX GmbH

Google

Konrad von Backstrom

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2016

2007

2010

2018

1999

Current release

10.7, August 2023

0.8, December 2018

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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