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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak TS vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak TS vs. SQream DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupCCRi and othersOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSQream Technologies
Initial release20162016201420152017
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.0.0, September 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaErlangC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlanguser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingdepending on storage layerShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factordepending on storage layerselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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