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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. Kingbase vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. Kingbase vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.kingbase.com.cnopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehugegraph.apache.org/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014BaiduBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20162012201819992011
Current release0.9V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'asynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functionsno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
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 HBaseyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparknono
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 rulesUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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