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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2GIS vs. InfinityDB vs. Lovefield

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	H2GIS  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Spatial extension of H2	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #368   Overall #7   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.h2gis.org	boilerbay.com	google.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	www.h2gis.org/­docs/­home	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	CNRS	Boiler Bay Inc.	Google
Initial release	2016	2013	2002	2014
Current release			4.0	2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source LGPL 3.0	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	Java	JavaScript
Server operating systems	hosted		All OS with a Java VM	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays	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 manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	no	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC		Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Java	Java	JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes based on H2	no	no
Triggers	yes	yes	no	Using read-only observers
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes based on H2	none	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 READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	yes using MemoryDB
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes based on H2	no	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	H2GIS	InfinityDB	Lovefield
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