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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GridGain

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#247  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score12.24
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#302  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.86
Rank#90  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#7  Wide column stores
Score1.59
Rank#158  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAsthon TateSoftmotionsGoogleGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release20161979201220152007
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lesshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared librarygRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
dBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersyesnononoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security Hooks for custom implementations

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