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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. PostGIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#213  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.hawkular.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/postgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupCommunity supported by Red HatInterSystemsCirconus LLC.
Initial release20162014201820172005
Current release2023.3, June 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes, in Luauser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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