DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FoundationDB vs. OpenQM vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FoundationDB vs. OpenQM vs. YTsaurus

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

apple.github.io/foundationdb

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

FoundationDB

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2013

1993

2023

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

supported in specific SQL layer only

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access Control Lists

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Alibaba Cloud upgrades AnalyticDB with vector database engine
25 July 2023, CloudTech News

Two Critical Flaws Found in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL Databases
20 April 2023, The Hacker News

The Evolution of Online Analytics from Alibaba Economy Ecosystem to the Cloud
20 February 2021, DataDrivenInvestor

Experts disclosed two critical flaws in Alibaba cloud database services
20 April 2023, Security Affairs

Alibaba Cloud to spur AI innovation with upcoming Singapore hackathon in March
21 February 2024, KrASIA

provided by Google News

FoundationDB team’s new venture, Antithesis, raises $47M to enhance software testing
13 February 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Antithesis Launches Out Of Stealth To Revolutionize Software Reliability
13 February 2024, PR Newswire

Antithesis raises $47M to launch an automated testing platform for software
13 February 2024, TechCrunch

Apple's FoundationDB takes new Record Layer open source, confirms tech underpins CloudKit
14 January 2019, AppleInsider

Apple Acquires FoundationDB
24 March 2015, blogs.wsj.com

provided by Google News

Yandex Unveils YaFSDP for 26% Faster LLM Training
11 June 2024, AIM

provided by Google News

Share this page