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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Cubrid vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Cubrid  Xexclude from comparison	gStore  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP	A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS RDF store	Relational DBMS column oriented
Secondary database models				Document store If a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell Event Store this is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps) Spatial DBMS Search engine support for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine Time Series DBMS see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 1.04 Rank #187   Overall #87   Relational DBMS	Score 0.14 Rank #342   Overall #34   Graph DBMS #16   RDF stores	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	cubrid.com (korean) cubrid.org (english)	en.gstore.cn	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	cubrid.org/­manuals	en.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs	docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation		Microsoft
Initial release	2016	2008	2016	2019
Current release		11.0, January 2021	1.2, November 2023	cloud service with continuous releases
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	Open Source BSD	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	yes
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Implementation language		C, C++, Java	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux	hosted
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support	Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types
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	no	no	yes
Secondary indexes	yes	yes		all fields are automatically indexed
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	no	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	HTTP API SPARQL 1.1	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Ruby	C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	Java Stored Procedures	yes	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggers	yes	yes		yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none		Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Source-replica replication		yes Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	Spark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency		Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes		no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	yes	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported	Azure Active Directory Authentication
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Cubrid	gStore	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer
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