DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FileMaker vs. GridDB vs. MariaDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FileMaker vs. GridDB vs. MariaDB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.claris.com/filemaker

griddb.net

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.griddb.net

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Toshiba Corporation

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

quasardb

Initial release

2016

1983

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2009

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.1, August 2022

11.3.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

integer and binary

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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