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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Cassandra vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Cassandra vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GridGain

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlcassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookSoftmotionsGoogleGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release20162008201220152007
Current release4.1.3, July 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lesshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
in-process shared librarygRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersyesyesnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"noneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security Hooks for custom implementations
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