DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. openGauss vs. Pinecone vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. openGauss vs. Pinecone vs. RocksDB

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A managed, cloud-native vector database

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.pinecone.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Chris Davis

Huawei and openGauss community

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2006

2019

2013

Current release

3.0, March 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java

Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate 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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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