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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. CouchDB vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB vs. SwayDB

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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 comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational 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
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#19  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlcouchdb.apache.orgorigodb.comquestdb.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableorigodb.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerRobert Friberg et alQuestDB Technology IncSimer Plaha
Initial release201620052009 infounder the name LiveDB20142018
Current release3.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC#Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustScala
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesno
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.yesnono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
.NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnodepending on modelnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACID for single-table writesAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationno
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"OrigoDBQuestDBSwayDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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