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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DataFS vs. FatDB vs. Heroic vs. TerarkDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

newdatabase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

spotify.github.io/heroic

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Mobiland AG

FatCloud

Spotify

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2018

2012

2014

2016

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Windows-Profile

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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