DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Ignite vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Ignite vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cloud.google.com/bigquery

ignite.apache.org

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2010

2015

2001

2016

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes (replicated cache)

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles

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