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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. eXtremeDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Newts vs. OpenQM

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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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.mcobject.com

geospock.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

McObject

GeoSpock

OpenNMS Group

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2016

2001

2014

1993

Current release

8.2, 2021

2.0, September 2019

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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