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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. etcd vs. RocksDB

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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

A distributed reliable key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bigobject.io

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BigObject, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

Current release

3.4, August 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

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)

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

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

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

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

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