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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Pinecone

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.featurebase.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.featurebase.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsCommunity supported by Red HatInterSystemsPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20162017201420182019
Current release2022, May 20222023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageGoJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL queriesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBFeatureBaseHawkular MetricsInterSystems IRISPinecone
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