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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.69
Rank	#218	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#316	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

IBM

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2016

2017

1994

Current release

2.0

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active-active shard replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

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

No - written data is immutable

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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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