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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EJDB vs. FoundationDB vs. HBase vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EJDB vs. FoundationDB vs. HBase vs. KairosDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdapple.github.io/­foundationdbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupSoftmotionsFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20162012201320082013
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.3.4, January 20211.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idno infosome layers support typingoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
in-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoin SQL-layer onlyyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblein SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple password-based access control

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