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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BaseX vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NSDb

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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.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

basex.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BaseX GmbH

IBM

Initial release

2016

2007

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

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#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java
Scala

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Active-active shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

Using Apache Lucene

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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