DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2015

2006

2013

2023

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access Control Lists

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