DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Citus vs. OpenQM vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Citus vs. OpenQM vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB

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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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.citusdata.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.citusdata.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Alessandro Furieri

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

1993

2008

2010

Current release

8.1, December 2018

3.4-12

5.0.0, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

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

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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