DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EventStoreDB vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EventStoreDB vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB

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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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.eventstore.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Event Store Limited

Chris Davis

Hypertable Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2006

2009

2013

Current release

21.2, February 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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