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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	GeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	JSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison
				JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.	Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch	JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Document store Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.86 Rank #205   Overall #4   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.geomesa.org	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	jsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html	spotify.github.io/­heroic
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	CCRi and others	Spotify	Konrad von Backstrom
Initial release	2016	2014	2014	2018
Current release		5.0.0, May 2024		0.8, December 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache License 2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Scala	Java
Server operating systems	hosted			Linux macOS Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	no
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	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes via Elasticsearch	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	no	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC		HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R			JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no	functions in JavaScript
Triggers	yes	no	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	depending on storage layer	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	depending on storage layer	yes	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	depending on storage layer	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes using RocksDB
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	depending on storage layer	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes depending on the DBMS used for storage
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	GeoMesa	Heroic	JSqlDb
DB-Engines blog posts		Spatial database management systems 6 April 2021, 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		Review: Google Bigtable scales with ease 7 September 2016, InfoWorld provided by Google News

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