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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GBase vs. OrigoDB vs. Prometheus vs. TerarkDB

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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.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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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	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.gbase.cn

origodb.com

prometheus.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

prometheus.io/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Robert Friberg et al

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2004

2009

under the name LiveDB

2015

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

Numeric data only

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

can be achieved using .NET

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

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