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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kinetica vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kinetica vs. RocksDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#247  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#191  Overall
#31  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score9.97
Rank#47  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#229  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.gigaspaces.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.kinetica.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupGigaspaces TechnologiesGoogleKineticaFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20162000201720122013
Current release15.5, September 20207.1, August 20218.10.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users and roles on table levelno

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