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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. gStore vs. InfinityDB vs. Lovefield

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	gStore  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS RDF store	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.14 Rank #342   Overall #34   Graph DBMS #16   RDF stores	Score 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	en.gstore.cn	boilerbay.com	google.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	en.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group		Boiler Bay Inc.	Google
Initial release	2016	2016	2002	2014
Current release		1.2, November 2023	4.0	2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source BSD	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	Java	JavaScript
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	All OS with a Java VM	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data scheme	yes	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays	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	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes		no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	no	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	HTTP API SPARQL 1.1	Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python	Java	JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes	no	no
Triggers	yes		no	Using read-only observers
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service		none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service		none	none
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
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes		no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	yes	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no	yes using MemoryDB
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported	no	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	gStore	InfinityDB	Lovefield
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