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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.esgyn.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupEsgynIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.
Initial release2016201520102017
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++, JavaErlangC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored ProceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in Lua
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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