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

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	DataFS  Xexclude from comparison	GeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison	Heroic  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.	GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.	Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Object oriented DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Time Series 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 #18   Object oriented DBMS	Score 0.86 Rank #205   Overall #4   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	newdatabase.com	www.geomesa.org	github.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	dev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xsp	www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html	spotify.github.io/­heroic
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Mobiland AG	CCRi and others	Spotify
Initial release	2016	2018	2014	2014
Current release		1.1.263, October 2022	5.0.0, May 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache License 2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language			Scala	Java
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)	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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 via Elasticsearch
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	no	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API Proprietary client DLL WinRT client		HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	.Net C C# C++ VB.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes		no	no
Triggers	yes	no, except callback-events from server when changes happened	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Proprietary Sharding system	depending on storage layer	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service		depending on storage layer	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	depending on storage layer	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no	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	depending on storage layer	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Windows-Profile	yes depending on the DBMS used for storage
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	DataFS	GeoMesa	Heroic
DB-Engines blog posts			Spatial database management systems 6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann show all
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			Review: Google Bigtable scales with ease 7 September 2016, InfoWorld provided by Google News

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