DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. HBase vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. HBase vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

clickhouse.com

hbase.apache.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oxford Semantic Technologies

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2008

2017

2009

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Roles, resources, and access types

yes, using Riak Security

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