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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgeospock.comhbase.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupGeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationSplice Machine
Initial release2016200820142014
Current release2.0, September 20192.3.4, January 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes infoJava
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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