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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. Rockset

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

boilerbay.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

kairosdb.github.io

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Boiler Bay Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2016

2002

2013

2019

Current release

4.0

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

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

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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