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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Heroic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. TerarkDB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Heroic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. TerarkDB vs. Ultipa

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupSpotifyIBMByteDance, originally TerarkUltipa
Initial release20162014201720162019
Current release2.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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