DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

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.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.geomesa.org

postgis.net

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

CCRi and others

ByteDance, originally Terark

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2014

2005

2016

1999

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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