DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB vs. XTDB

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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

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

surrealdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2006

2013

2022

2019

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Clojure
Java

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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