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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. IRONdb vs. OrigoDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison	IRONdb  Xexclude from comparison	OrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
			IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity	A fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Time Series DBMS	Document store Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores		Score 0.06 Rank #380   Overall #50   Document stores #18   Object oriented DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	boilerbay.com	www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/	origodb.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual	docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started	origodb.com/­docs
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Boiler Bay Inc.	Circonus LLC.	Robert Friberg et al
Initial release	2016	2002	2017	2009 under the name LiveDB
Current release		4.0	V0.10.20, January 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	Open Source
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C and C++	C#
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java VM	Linux	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays	yes text, numeric, histograms	User defined using .NET types and collections
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	no	no can be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexes	yes	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)	HTTP API	.NET Client API HTTP API LINQ
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Java	.Net C C++ Clojure Erlang Go Haskell Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) Lisp Lua Perl PHP Python R Ruby Rust Scala	.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	yes, in Lua	yes
Triggers	yes	no	no	yes Domain Events
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Automatic, metric affinity per node	horizontal partitioning client side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	configurable replication factor, datacenter aware	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 READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED	Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	no	depending on model
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes Write ahead log
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	no	Role based authorization
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	InfinityDB	IRONdb	OrigoDB
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