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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Circonus LLC.DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20162023201220172015
Current release1.0, March 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLualimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in Luano
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rulesnorights management via user accounts

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