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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. WakandaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 ElasticSearchSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aiwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewspotify.github.io/­heroiclearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupSpotifyMicrosoftquasardbWakanda SAS
Initial release20162014201520092012
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes

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