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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FoundationDB vs. Infobright vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FoundationDB vs. Infobright vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdborigodb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewapple.github.io/­foundationdborigodb.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupFoundationDBIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Robert Friberg et alSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2016201320052009 infounder the name LiveDB1994
Current release6.2.28, November 202016.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.yesnono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.NetC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlynoyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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