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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Faircom DB vs. Stardog vs. STSdb

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison	Stardog  Xexclude from comparison	STSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.	Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization	Key-Value Store with special method for indexing optimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS RDF store	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 0.29 Rank #304   Overall #43   Key-value stores #136   Relational DBMS	Score 2.07 Rank #122   Overall #11   Graph DBMS #6   RDF stores	Score 0.10 Rank #357   Overall #51   Key-value stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db	www.stardog.com	github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	docs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html	docs.stardog.com
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	FairCom Corporation	Stardog-Union	STS Soft SC
Initial release	2016	1979	2010	2011
Current release		V12, November 2020	7.3.0, May 2020	4.0.8, September 2015
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial Restricted, free version available	commercial 60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students	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		ANSI C, C++	Java	C#
Server operating systems	hosted	AIX FreeBSD HP-UX Linux NetBSD OS X QNX SCO Solaris VxWorks Windows easily portable to other OSs	Linux macOS Windows	Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures	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 Import/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions	Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET Direct SQL JDBC JPA ODBC RESTful HTTP/JSON API RESTful MQTT/JSON API RPC	GraphQL query language HTTP API Jena RDF API OWL RDF4J API Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SNARL SPARQL Spring Data Stardog Studio TinkerPop 3	.NET Client API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	.Net C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js and browser) PHP Python Visual Basic	.Net Clojure Groovy Java JavaScript Python Ruby	C# Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes .Net, JavaScript, C/C++	user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java	no
Triggers	yes	yes	yes via event handlers	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding Customizable business rules for table partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).	Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction	Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	yes relationships in graphs	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files	Access rights for users and roles	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE	Stardog	STSdb
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