DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. chDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. chDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HugeGraph

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Description

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

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A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#100	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

cloud.google.com/spanner

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

doc.chdb.io

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

Baidu

Initial release

2016

2023

2017

2018

Current release

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

yes

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

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

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Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

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

Users, roles and permissions

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