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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. EJDB vs. KairosDB vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. EJDB vs. KairosDB vs. PlanetScale

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbplanetscale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdkairosdb.github.ioplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupEnterpriseDBSoftmotionsPlanetScale
Initial release20162005201220132020
Current release14, December 20211.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCCJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
server-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.yesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
in-process shared libraryGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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