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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Dgraph vs. EventStoreDB vs. FileMaker vs. GBase

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

dgraph.io

www.eventstore.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gbase.cn

Technical documentation

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

dgraph.io/docs

developers.eventstore.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Event Store Limited

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

1983

2004

Current release

21.2, February 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

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

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

Planned for future releases

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

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