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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. SiteWhere vs. Tarantool vs. XTDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.tarantool.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewgraphite.readthedocs.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupChris DavisSiteWhereVKJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20162006201020082019
Current release2.10.0, May 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTOpen binary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLua, C and SQL stored proceduresno
Triggersyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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