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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

Initial release

2016

2014

1995

2019

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

no user groups or roles

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

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