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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. CouchDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. CouchDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlcouchdb.apache.orgwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaserocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20162005200320102013
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.6.27, May 2024V129.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangCC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
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
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptnoTransact SQLno
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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