DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

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.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	2.69
Rank	#101	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cloud.google.com/spanner

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2017

2011

2012

2023

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

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

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

JavaScript

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

Sharding

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.

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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.

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)

yes

Access Control Lists

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