DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Couchbase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Couchbase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.couchbase.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

cloud.google.com/bigtable

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchbase.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Couchbase, Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Google

quasardb

Initial release

2016

2011

1979

2015

2009

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

V3, October 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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