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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Blueflood vs. GBase vs. HBase

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

blueflood.io

www.gbase.cn

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Rackspace

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2016

2013

2004

2008

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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.

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

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