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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.h2database.com

hsqldb.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Thomas Mueller

IBM

Initial release

2016

2005

2001

2017

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

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

none

Active-active shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

No - written data is immutable

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

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