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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Spatial extension of H2

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.h2database.com

www.h2gis.org

rockset.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rockset.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

Rockset

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

2005

2013

2019

2015

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

based on H2

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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