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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HyperSQL vs. InfinityDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	HyperSQL also known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.	Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java also known as HSQLDB	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
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 #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS	Score 3.23 Rank #93   Overall #48   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.hawkular.org	hsqldb.org	boilerbay.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide	hsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Community supported by Red Hat		Boiler Bay Inc.
Initial release	2016	2014	2001	2002
Current release			2.7.2, June 2023	4.0
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source based on BSD license	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	Java	Java
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux OS X Windows	All OS with a Java VM Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes	All OS with a Java VM
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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	no	yes	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST	HTTP API JDBC via HTTP 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	Go Java Python Ruby	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC Java	Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	Java, SQL	no
Triggers	yes	yes via Hawkular Alerting	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding based on Cassandra	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	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	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	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	no	yes	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Hawkular Metrics	HyperSQL also known as HSQLDB	InfinityDB
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