DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HBase vs. SQLite vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HBase vs. SQLite vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Valentina Server

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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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

hbase.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Rocket Software

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2008

2000

1985

1999

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

optional

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

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

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)

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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 according to SQL-standard and operating system based

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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