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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PlanetScale

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orgplanetscale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupFairCom CorporationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatPlanetScale
Initial release20161979201220142020
Current releaseV3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaGo
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoANSI SQL queriesnonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++limited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infowhen using SQLnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yes, based on authentication and database rulesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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