DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. CouchDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. OrientDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. CouchDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. OrientDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2005

2000

2010

2013

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

15.5, September 2020

3.2.29, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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 can be defined per database

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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