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

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlblueflood.iohbase.apache.orgwww.openpie.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihbase.apache.org/­book.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenPieQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2016201320082014
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBBluefloodHBasePieCloudDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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