DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SingleStore vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SingleStore vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.singlestore.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

docs.singlestore.com

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2016

2010

2016

2013

2017

Current release

5.10, January 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

simple rights management via user accounts

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Licensing and pricing models

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