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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

basex.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BaseX GmbH

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2016

2007

2010

2013

Current release

10.7, August 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

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#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple password-based access control

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