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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GBase vs. Informix vs. SiteWhere vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GBase vs. Informix vs. SiteWhere vs. SQream DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresqream.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.SiteWhereSQream Technologies
Initial release20162004198420102017
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c14.10.FC5, November 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC, C++ and JavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
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-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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