DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GBase vs. OrigoDB vs. TerarkDB vs. Vitess

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

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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

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

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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

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

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.gbase.cn

origodb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

vitess.io

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Robert Friberg et al

ByteDance, originally Terark

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2016

2004

2009

under the name LiveDB

2016

2013

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses 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

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net

C++
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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