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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GeoMesa vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.geomesa.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupCCRi and othersApache Software Foundation
Initial release201620142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2014
Current release4.0.5, February 202410 R1, October 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaCScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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