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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GreptimeDB vs. HBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GreptimeDB vs. HBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgreptime.comhbase.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.greptime.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupGreptime Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162022200820072001
Current release2.3.4, January 202114.1, August 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageRustJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyesyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)configurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSimple rights management via user accountsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBGreptimeDBHBaseOracle CoherenceSphinx
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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