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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. JanusGraph vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. JanusGraph vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. VoltDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#213  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#134  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqljanusgraph.orgrockset.comsphinxsearch.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusRocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20162017201920012010
Current release1.0.0, October 20233.5.1, February 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP RESTProprietary protocolJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonoJava
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Automatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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