DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Galaxybase vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Galaxybase vs. Hawkular Metrics

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Drizzle  Xexclude from comparison	Galaxybase  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
		Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.	Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform	Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS		Score 0.07 Rank #377   Overall #40   Graph DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql		galaxybase.com	www.hawkular.org
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview			www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker	Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司	Community supported by Red Hat
Initial release	2016	2008	2017	2014
Current release		7.2.4, September 2012	Nov 20, November 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source GNU GPL	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	C and Java	Java
Server operating systems	hosted	FreeBSD Linux OS X	Linux	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	Strong typed schema	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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		no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes with proprietary extensions	no	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	JDBC	Browser interface console (shell) Graph API (Gremlin) OpenCypher Proprietary native API	HTTP REST
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C C++ Java PHP	Go Java Python	Go Java Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	user defined procedures and functions	no
Triggers	yes	no hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.		yes via Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding	Sharding	Sharding based on Cassandra
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication		selectable replication factor based on Cassandra
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	yes Relationships in graphs	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		yes	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Pluggable authentication mechanisms e.g. LDAP, HTTP	Role-based access control	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Drizzle	Galaxybase	Hawkular Metrics
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