DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.dolphindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hazelcast.com

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

Hazelcast

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

2010

2008

2012

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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