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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GreptimeDB vs. Heroic vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

greptime.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Greptime Inc.

Spotify

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2016

2022

2014

2020

Current release

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Simple rights management via user accounts

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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