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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Heroic vs. SpatiaLite vs. Yaacomo

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	SpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison	Yaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
				Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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	Spatial extension of SQLite	OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			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 1.63 Rank #146   Overall #3   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index	yaacomo.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	spotify.github.io/­heroic	www.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Spotify	Alessandro Furieri	Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release	2016	2014	2008	2009
Current release			5.0.0, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C++
Server operating systems	hosted		server-less	Android Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes via Elasticsearch	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API		JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no
Triggers	yes	no	yes	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	Source-replica replication
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
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	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	yes	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard		no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Heroic	SpatiaLite	Yaacomo
DB-Engines blog posts			Spatial database management systems 6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann show all
Recent citations in the news	Alibaba Cloud upgrades AnalyticDB with vector database engine 25 July 2023, CloudTech News Two Critical Flaws Found in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL Databases 20 April 2023, The Hacker News Accidental ‘write’ Permissions In Alibaba PostgreSQL Let Attackers Access Sensitive Data 22 April 2023, GBHackers Two critical vulnerabilities spotted in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL databases 21 April 2023, TEISS Alibaba Cloud ignites AI innovation in Singapore with recent hackathon | KrASIA 27 March 2024, KrASIA provided by Google News	Review: Google Bigtable scales with ease 7 September 2016, InfoWorld provided by Google News

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