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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hive vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hive vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
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 instanceA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
cloud.google.com/­spannerhive.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOracle
Initial release20162023201720122007
Current release1.0, March 20233.1.3, April 202214.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesscheme-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuanoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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