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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Databend vs. GBase vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#287	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.gbase.cn

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

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

docs.databend.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Databend Labs

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2016

2021

2004

2017

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

yes

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