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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Databricks vs. JanusGraph vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Databricks vs. JanusGraph vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.79
Rank#213  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#134  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.databricks.comjanusgraph.orgrockset.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.databricks.comdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupDatabricksLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusRocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162013201720192001
Current release1.0.0, October 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingno
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.yesyesnono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyeswith Databricks SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Automatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBDatabricksJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanRocksetSphinx
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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