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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. CouchDB vs. JaguarDB vs. PostgreSQL

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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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.59
Rank	#215	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	16.35
Rank	#35	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#313	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	552.23
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

couchdb.apache.org

www.datajaguar.com

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/35387.htm

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.datajaguar.com/support.php

www.postgresql.org/docs

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

DataJaguar, Inc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2016

2005

2015

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

3.1.1 , September 2020

2.9.4 September 2018

13.1, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

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

Triggers

yes

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

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

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

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

SQL support, group by, order by, join
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Competitive advantages

Extremely easy to scale-out (in seconds) 100,000 times faster
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Typical application scenarios

IoT data, time series data, AI data. Any type of numerical data.
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Key customers

Quantea, 2PiDay, Synqy, SinoLogistics, IIVI
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Market metrics

Advertising awareness, installed base, brand image, market share
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Licensing and pricing models

Free-trial license, per-node license, and subscription license.
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