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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Newts

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Softmotions

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2013

2012

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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 Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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