DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. Hyprcubd vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. Hyprcubd vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Spatial extension of H2

Serverless Time Series DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

fauna.com

www.h2gis.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Fauna, Inc.

CNRS

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2014

2013

2021

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (https)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

based on H2

token access

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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