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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. JSqlDb vs. MonetDB vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. JSqlDb vs. MonetDB vs. QuestDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlbigobject.iojsqldb.org (offline)www.monetdb.orgquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.bigobject.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupBigObject, Inc.Konrad von BackstromMonetDB BVQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20162015201820042014
Current release0.8, December 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuafunctions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBBigObjectJSqlDbMonetDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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