DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Softmotions

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2012

2009

2013

1980

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.7.5, January 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

Numeric data and Strings

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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