DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. DolphinDB vs. EJDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. DolphinDB vs. EJDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bigobject.io

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BigObject, Inc.

DolphinDB, Inc

Softmotions

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2015

2018

2012

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

in-process shared library

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Read/Write 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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

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