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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsiridb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014QuestDB Technology IncSAP infoformerly SybaseCesbit
Initial release20162010201419922017
Current release17, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL with time-series extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID for single-table writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBIBM CloudantQuestDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSiriDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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