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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GreptimeDB vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegreptime.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.greptime.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Greptime Inc.BaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20162012202220182010
Current release0.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageRustJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'Pythonasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesSimple rights management via user accountsUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per database
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseGreptimeDBHugeGraphIBM Cloudant
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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