DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 vs. Linter vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 vs. Linter vs. RDF4J

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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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

RDBMS for high security requirements

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2

linter.ru

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

IBM

relex.ru

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2010

1983

host version

1990

2004

Current release

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

none

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

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

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