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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DataFS vs. Faircom DB vs. Lovefield

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	DataFS  Xexclude from comparison	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	All 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.	Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Object oriented DBMS	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.09 Rank #360   Overall #17   Object oriented DBMS	Score 0.29 Rank #304   Overall #43   Key-value stores #136   Relational DBMS	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	newdatabase.com	www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db	google.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	dev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xsp	docs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Mobiland AG	FairCom Corporation	Google
Initial release	2016	2018	1979	2014
Current release		1.1.263, October 2022	V12, November 2020	2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial Restricted, free version available	Open Source Apache 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language			ANSI C, C++	JavaScript
Server operating systems	hosted	Windows	AIX FreeBSD HP-UX Linux NetBSD OS X QNX SCO Solaris VxWorks Windows easily portable to other OSs	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data scheme	yes	Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)	schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures	yes
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	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API Proprietary client DLL WinRT client	ADO.NET Direct SQL JDBC JPA ODBC RESTful HTTP/JSON API RESTful MQTT/JSON API RPC
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	.Net C C# C++ VB.Net	.Net C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js and browser) PHP Python Visual Basic	JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes		yes .Net, JavaScript, C/C++	no
Triggers	yes	no, except callback-events from server when changes happened	yes	Using read-only observers
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Proprietary Sharding system	File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding Customizable business rules for table partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service		yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	yes	yes using MemoryDB
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Windows-Profile	Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	DataFS	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE	Lovefield
Recent citations in the news	Alibaba Cloud upgrades AnalyticDB with vector database engine 25 July 2023, CloudTech News Two Critical Flaws Found in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL Databases 20 April 2023, The Hacker News Accidental ‘write’ Permissions In Alibaba PostgreSQL Let Attackers Access Sensitive Data 22 April 2023, GBHackers Two critical vulnerabilities spotted in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL databases 21 April 2023, TEISS Alibaba Cloud ignites AI innovation in Singapore with recent hackathon | KrASIA 27 March 2024, KrASIA provided by Google News		FairCom Unveils New Look, FairCom DB v13: Introducing 'DB Made Simple' 4 June 2024, Business Wire FairCom kicks off new era of database technology USA - English 10 November 2020, PR Newswire provided by Google News

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