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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupCommunity supported by Red HatIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20162014201020122014
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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