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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Geode vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.67
Rank	#220	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#154	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#312	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

geode.apache.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2002

2001

Current release

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

optimistic locking

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 per client and object definable

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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