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

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Name

Description

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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.59
Rank	#215	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#167	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	552.23
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#260	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.gbase8a.com

www.postgresql.org

www.transaction.de/en/solutions/transbase-resource-optimized-high-performance-database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/35387.htm

www.postgresql.org/docs

www.transaction.de/en/transbase-inside

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

1987

Current release

GBase 8a

13.1, November 2020

Transbase 8.4, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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