DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Heroic vs. Quasardb vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Heroic vs. Quasardb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

blueflood.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

quasar.ai

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

spotify.github.io/heroic

doc.quasar.ai/master

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Rackspace

Spotify

quasardb

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

2009

2012

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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