DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

A 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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

brytlyt.io

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

cloud.google.com/spanner

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.datastax.com

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Brytlyt

DataStax

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2011

2017

2013

Current release

5.0, August 2023

6.8, April 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

yes

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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