DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere

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Name

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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.dolphindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

DolphinDB, Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2018

2010

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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 rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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