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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Interbase vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.64
Rank	#210	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	6.47
Rank	#57	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	549.29
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/35387.htm

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Embarcadero

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2016

1984

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

13.2 , February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
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

export as XML data possible

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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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