DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright vs. Linter vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright vs. Linter vs. SwayDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	Infobright  Xexclude from comparison	Linter  Xexclude from comparison	SwayDB  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.	High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend	RDBMS for high security requirements	An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
Secondary database models				Spatial DBMS
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 1.02 Rank #192   Overall #90   Relational DBMS	Score 0.12 Rank #350   Overall #152   Relational DBMS	Score 0.04 Rank #387   Overall #61   Key-value stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.hawkular.org	ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb	linter.ru	swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Community supported by Red Hat	Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.	relex.ru	Simer Plaha
Initial release	2016	2014	2005	1990	2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016	commercial	Open Source GNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C	C and C++	Scala
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows	AIX Android BSD HP Open VMS iOS Linux OS X VxWorks Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
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	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	no Knowledge Grid Technology used instead	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	yes	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC LINQ ODBC OLE DB Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Go Java Python Ruby	.Net C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Haskell Java Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl	C C# C++ Java Perl PHP Python Qt Ruby Tcl	Java Kotlin Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no	yes proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL	no
Triggers	yes	yes via Hawkular Alerting	no	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	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	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	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	ACID	Atomic execution of operations
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	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		yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Hawkular Metrics	Infobright	Linter	SwayDB
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