DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Citus vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Citus vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.citusdata.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.citusdata.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2017

2013

Current release

8.1, December 2018

2.0

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

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

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Active-active shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

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