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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Citus vs. OpenQM

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Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

blueflood.io

www.citusdata.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

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

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.citusdata.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Rackspace

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2016

2013

2010

1993

Current release

8.1, December 2018

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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