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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. Splunk vs. TerarkDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	BigObject  Xexclude from comparison	Splunk  Xexclude from comparison	TerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries	Analytics Platform for Big Data	A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed	Search engine	Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.19 Rank #329   Overall #146   Relational DBMS	Score 89.10 Rank #14   Overall #2   Search engines	Score 0.08 Rank #367   Overall #56   Key-value stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	bigobject.io	www.splunk.com	github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	docs.bigobject.io	docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk	bytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	BigObject, Inc.	Splunk Inc.	ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release	2016	2015	2003	2016
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free community edition available	commercial Limited free edition and free developer edition available	commercial restricted open source version available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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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 OS X Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	no
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	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	no Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	fluentd ODBC RESTful HTTP API	HTTP REST	C++ API Java API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R		C# Java JavaScript PHP Python Ruby	C++ Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	Lua	yes	no
Triggers	yes	no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Multi-source replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	none	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes automatically between fact table and dimension tables	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	no A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	Access rights for users and roles	no
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