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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DataFS vs. EJDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DataFS vs. EJDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlnewdatabase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupMobiland AGSoftmotionsElasticMicrosoft
Initial release20162018201220102015
Current release1.1.263, October 20228.6, January 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemshostedWindowsserver-lessAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
in-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyesno, except callback-events from server when changes happenednoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceProprietary Sharding systemnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardWindows-Profilenoyes infousing Azure authentication

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