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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GridDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgriddb.netwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeopentsdb.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.griddb.netwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupToshiba CorporationIBMcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20162013201720111994
Current release5.1, August 20222.016.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBGridDBIBM Db2 Event StoreOpenTSDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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