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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. Dragonfly vs. HBase vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. Dragonfly vs. HBase vs. MonetDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumIn-memory caching systemA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlcachelot.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
hbase.apache.orgwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.dragonflydb.io/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupDragonflyDB team and community contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMonetDB BV
Initial release20162015202320082004
Current release1.0, March 20232.3.4, January 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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 indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Memcached protocolProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuayes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoPassword-based authenticationAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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