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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. eXtremeDB vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.72
Rank	#214	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.82
Rank	#89	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.mcobject.com

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

McObject

Initial release

2016

2001

Current release

8.2, 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

yes

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

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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