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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HyperSQL vs. Pinecone vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlhsqldb.orgwww.pinecone.iorockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupPinecone Systems, IncRockset
Initial release2016200120192019
Current release2.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleandynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
PythonGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, SQLno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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