DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Solr vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Solr vs. SwayDB

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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.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	44.28
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2006

2018

Current release

GBase 8a

10 R1, October 2018

9.5.0, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

optimistic locking

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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