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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. HBase vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. HBase vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.bigchaindb.comwww.enterprisedb.comhbase.apache.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.enterprisedb.com/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupEnterpriseDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162016200520082018
Current release14, December 20212.3.4, January 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonCJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.yesnoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACRole-based access control

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