DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. etcd vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. etcd vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

1984

2014

2018

Current release

3.4, August 2019

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Interbase Change Views

yes

none

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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