DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. MySQL vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. MySQL vs. TimesTen

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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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Widely used open source RDBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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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	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.bigchaindb.com

hbase.apache.org

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hbase.apache.org/book.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2008

1995

1998

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

proprietary syntax

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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