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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.h2database.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupThomas MuellerCirconus LLC.quasardb
Initial release20162005201720142009
Current release2.2.220, July 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJavaScript APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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