DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SwayDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Cachelot.io  Xexclude from comparison	GeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	SwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	In-memory caching system	GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.	Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.	An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Spatial DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.04 Rank #388   Overall #62   Key-value stores	Score 0.86 Rank #205   Overall #4   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.04 Rank #387   Overall #61   Key-value stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	cachelot.io	www.geomesa.org	www.hawkular.org	swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview		www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group		CCRi and others	Community supported by Red Hat	Simer Plaha
Initial release	2016	2015	2014	2014	2018
Current release			5.0.0, May 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Simplified BSD License	Open Source Apache License 2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source GNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	Scala	Java	Scala
Server operating systems	hosted	FreeBSD Linux OS X		Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	schema-free	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	yes	yes	no
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	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	yes	no	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	no	no	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	Memcached protocol		HTTP REST
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby		Go Java Python Ruby	Java Kotlin Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no	no	no
Triggers	yes	no	no	yes via Hawkular Alerting	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	depending on storage layer	Sharding based on Cassandra	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	depending on storage layer	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	none	depending on storage layer	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	no	no	Atomic execution of operations
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	no	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	depending on storage layer	no	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	yes depending on the DBMS used for storage	no	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Cachelot.io	GeoMesa	Hawkular Metrics	SwayDB
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