DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere

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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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2010

2009

1994

2010

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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.

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, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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