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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GBase vs. LokiJS vs. Transbase

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	GBase  Xexclude from comparison	LokiJS  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
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.	In-memory JavaScript DBMS	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 1.05 Rank #186   Overall #86   Relational DBMS	Score 0.49 Rank #260   Overall #42   Document stores	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.gbase.cn	github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview		techfort.github.io/­LokiJS	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	General Data Technology Co., Ltd.		Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	2016	2004	2014	1987
Current release		GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c		Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C, Java, Python	JavaScript	C and C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	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	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes via views	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	Standard with numerous extensions	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET C API JDBC ODBC	JavaScript API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C#	JavaScript	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	user defined functions	View functions in JavaScript	yes
Triggers	yes	yes	yes	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
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes	none	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	none	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no atomic operations within a single collection possible	yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes		yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		yes	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	GBase	LokiJS	Transbase
DB-Engines blog posts			New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript 1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann show all
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 Accidental ‘write’ Permissions In Alibaba PostgreSQL Let Attackers Access Sensitive Data 22 April 2023, GBHackers Two critical vulnerabilities spotted in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL databases 21 April 2023, TEISS Alibaba Cloud ignites AI innovation in Singapore with recent hackathon | KrASIA 27 March 2024, KrASIA provided by Google News		LokiJS - A JavaScript Database 18 November 2014, iProgrammer provided by Google News

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