DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

The 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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.enterprisedb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

sphinxsearch.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

EnterpriseDB

Google

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2005

2010

2001

2018

Current release

14, December 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

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