DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Datomic vs. Infobright vs. JSqlDb vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Datomic vs. Infobright vs. JSqlDb vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

JSqlDB 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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.datomic.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Cognitect

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2016

2012

2005

2018

1984

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.8, December 2018

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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