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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. HyperSQL vs. searchxml vs. Transbase

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	HyperSQL also known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison	searchxml  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java also known as HSQLDB	DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Native XML DBMS Search engine	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 3.23 Rank #93   Overall #48   Relational DBMS	Score 0.03 Rank #390   Overall #7   Native XML DBMS #24   Search engines	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	hsqldb.org	www.searchxml.net/­category/­products	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	hsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html	www.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group		informationpartners gmbh	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	2016	2001	2015	1987
Current release		2.7.2, June 2023	1.0	Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source based on BSD license	commercial	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C++	C and C++
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java VM Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes	Windows	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	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	yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	HTTP API JDBC via HTTP JDBC ODBC	RESTful HTTP API WebDAV XQuery XSLT	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC Java	C++ most other programming languages supported via APIs	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	Java, SQL	yes on the application server	yes
Triggers	yes	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	yes sychronisation to multiple collections	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	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	multiple readers, single writer	yes
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	yes	no	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	HyperSQL also known as HSQLDB	searchxml	Transbase
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 How Data Analytics Capabilities of Alibaba Group Evolve Its Ecosystem to the Cloud 20 February 2021, DataDrivenInvestor provided by Google News	HyperSQL DataBase flaw leaves library vulnerable to RCE 24 October 2022, The Daily Swig Introduction to JDBC with HSQLDB tutorial 14 November 2022, TheServerSide.com provided by Google News

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