DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Heroic vs. KairosDB vs. TerarkDB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Heroic vs. KairosDB vs. TerarkDB vs. Tkrzw

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Name

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

spotify.github.io/heroic

kairosdb.github.io

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Spotify

ByteDance, originally Terark

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2016

2014

2013

2016

2020

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Java

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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