DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. GreptimeDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. GreptimeDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

geospock.com

greptime.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

GeoSpock

Greptime Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2022

2013

Current release

2.0, September 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Simple rights management via user accounts

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