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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memgraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#213  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#348  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orgmachbase.commemgraph.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidemachbase.com/­dbmsmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatMachbaseMemgraph Ltd
Initial release20162012201420132017
Current releaseV8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnonoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesnosimple password-based access controlUsers, roles and permissions
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseHawkular MetricsMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxMemgraph
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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