DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2008

2013

2003

2001

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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