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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. Heroic vs. STSdb

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	EsgynDB  Xexclude from comparison	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	STSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion	Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch	Key-Value Store with special method for indexing optimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.25 Rank #312   Overall #138   Relational DBMS	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.10 Rank #357   Overall #51   Key-value stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.esgyn.cn	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview		spotify.github.io/­heroic
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Esgyn	Spotify	STS Soft SC
Initial release	2016	2015	2014	2011
Current release				4.0.8, September 2015
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source GPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++, Java	Java	C#
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux		Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes primitive types and user defined types (classes)
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	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes via Elasticsearch	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	no	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API	.NET Client API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net		C# Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	Java Stored Procedures	no	no
Triggers	yes	no	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Multi-source replication between multi datacenters	yes	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard		no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	EsgynDB	Heroic	STSdb
Recent citations in the news	Alibaba Cloud upgrades AnalyticDB with vector database engine 25 July 2023, CloudTech News Two Critical Flaws Found in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL Databases 20 April 2023, The Hacker News Two critical vulnerabilities spotted in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL databases 21 April 2023, TEISS Experts disclosed two critical flaws in Alibaba cloud database services 20 April 2023, Security Affairs Alibaba Cloud to spur AI innovation with upcoming Singapore hackathon in March 21 February 2024, KrASIA provided by Google News

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