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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. HEAVY.AI

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial 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	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

basex.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BaseX GmbH

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2007

2016

Current release

10.7, August 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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