DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. Milvus vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. Milvus vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

milvus.io

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2016

2006

2019

2013

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

Vector, Numeric and String

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

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