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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Faircom DB vs. GeoMesa vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.bigchaindb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.geomesa.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupFairCom CorporationCCRi and othersRockset
Initial release20162016197920142019
Current releaseV12, November 20205.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonANSI C, C++ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningdepending on storage layerAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).depending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
depending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
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-standardyesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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