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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. IBM Db2 vs. InfinityDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.ibm.com/products/db2

boilerbay.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

IBM

Boiler Bay Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

1983

host version

2002

2013

Current release

12.1, October 2016

4.0

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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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