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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebolt vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Firebolt vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.netgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.firebolt.iospotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupFirebolt Analytics Inc.SpotifyByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20162020201420052016
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layeryesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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