DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. PouchDB vs. Realm vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. PouchDB vs. Realm 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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

pouchdb.com

realm.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

pouchdb.com/guides

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2006

2012

2014

2013

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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