DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Riak KV vs. Stardog vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Riak KV vs. Stardog vs. SwayDB

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Name

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.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

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

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.hawkular.org

www.stardog.com

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Community supported by Red Hat

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Stardog-Union

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2014

2009

2010

2018

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

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