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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2 vs. OpenQM vs. Postgres-XL

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	H2  Xexclude from comparison	OpenQM also called QM  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
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.	QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Multivalue DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Spatial DBMS		Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 8.33 Rank #46   Overall #30   Relational DBMS	Score 0.34 Rank #284   Overall #10   Multivalue DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.h2database.com	www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm	www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	www.h2database.com/­html/­main.html		www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Thomas Mueller	Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release	2016	2005	1993	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release		2.2.220, July 2023	3.4-12	10 R1, October 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)	Open Source GPLv2, extended commercial license available	Open Source Mozilla public license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java		C
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java VM	AIX FreeBSD Linux macOS Raspberry Pi Solaris Windows	Linux macOS
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes with some exceptions	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes		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	no	yes	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	no	yes distributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	JDBC ODBC		ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Java	.Net Basic C Java Objective C PHP Python	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions	yes	user defined functions
Triggers	yes	yes	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	yes	horizontal partitioning
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
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	ACID MVCC
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes		no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights can be defined down to the item level	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	H2	OpenQM also called QM	Postgres-XL
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