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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. GeoMesa vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. GeoMesa vs. NSDb

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.geomesa.orgnsdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupDragonflyDB team and community contributorsCCRi and others
Initial release20162016202320142017
Current release1.0, March 20235.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ScalaJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanono
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesPassword-based authenticationyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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