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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Dgraph vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

dgraph.io

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

dgraph.io/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Embarcadero

Google

Initial release

2016

1984

2014

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Synchronous replication via Raft

Interbase Change Views

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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