DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RDFox

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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 containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

InterSystems

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2010

2018

2017

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

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)

yes

Roles, resources, and access types

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