DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GBase vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GBase vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Widely used open source RDBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.gbase.cn

github.com/google/leveldb

www.mysql.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oushu

Initial release

2016

2004

2011

1995

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.23, February 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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