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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlblueflood.iocloud.google.com/­spannerwww.oxfordsemantic.techswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupRackspaceGoogleOxford Semantic TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release20162013201720172018
Current release6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.replication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Roles, resources, and access typesno

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