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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2 vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	H2  Xexclude from comparison	SpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison	SpatiaLite  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.	SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.	Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models		Spatial DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational 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 0.03 Rank #392   Overall #8   Spatial DBMS	Score 1.63 Rank #146   Overall #3   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.h2database.com	www.mireo.com/­spacetime	www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	www.h2database.com/­html/­main.html		www.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Thomas Mueller	Mireo	Alessandro Furieri
Initial release	2016	2005	2020	2008
Current release		2.2.220, July 2023		5.0.0, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)	commercial	Open Source MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C++	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java VM	Linux	server-less
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	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	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	JDBC ODBC	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Java	C# C++ Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions	no	no
Triggers	yes	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Fixed-grid hypercubes	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	Real-time block device replication (DRBD)	none
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
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no	ACID
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	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	H2	SpaceTime	SpatiaLite
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