DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. EJDB vs. jBASE vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. EJDB vs. jBASE vs. SQream DB

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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

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

sqream.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BigObject, Inc.

Softmotions

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2015

2012

1991

2017

Current release

5.7

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

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)

server-less

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

optional

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

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

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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