DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	jBASE  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  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.	A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Multivalue DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models				Document store 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 1.49 Rank #156   Overall #3   Multivalue DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.hawkular.org	www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase	www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide	docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Community supported by Red Hat	Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release	2016	2014	1991	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release			5.7	10 R1, October 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	Open Source Mozilla public license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java		C
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux OS X Windows	AIX Linux Windows	Linux macOS
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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	no	yes	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexes	yes	no		yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC	yes distributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST	JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP API SOAP-based API	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Go Java Python Ruby	.Net Basic Jabbascript Java	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	yes	user defined functions
Triggers	yes	yes via Hawkular Alerting	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding based on Cassandra	Sharding	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	yes
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
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	ACID MVCC
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	Access rights can be defined down to the item level	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Hawkular Metrics	jBASE	Postgres-XL
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