DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. MariaDB vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. MariaDB vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

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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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

brytlyt.io

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

docs.brytlyt.io

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Brytlyt

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2009

2010

Current release

5.0, August 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

predefined scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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