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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain vs. JaguarDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgnitePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#213  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#16  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gridgain.comwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GridGain Systems, Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20162012201220072015
Current release1.0.7180, July 2024GridGain 8.5.13.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
rights management via user accounts

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