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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores	Score 0.14 Rank #341   Overall #149   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	boilerbay.com	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	spotify.github.io/­heroic	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Spotify	Boiler Bay Inc.	Transwarp
Initial release	2016	2014	2002
Current release			4.0
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	Java
Server operating systems	hosted		All OS with a Java VM
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays	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	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes via Elasticsearch	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API	Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R		Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no	yes
Triggers	yes	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding	none	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes	none
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 Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	ACID
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	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard		no	yes
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Heroic	InfinityDB	Transwarp KunDB
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