DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yanza

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison	Yanza  Xexclude from comparison
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Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development	Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Search engine	Time Series DBMS
Secondary database models			Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 5.52 Rank #59   Overall #6   Search engines
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	google.github.io/­lovefield	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search	yanza.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Google	Microsoft	Yanza
Initial release	2016	2014	2015	2015
Current release		2.1.12, February 2017	V1
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial free version available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation language		JavaScript
Server operating systems	hosted	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	hosted	Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	no
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	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	no	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC		RESTful HTTP API	HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	JavaScript	C# Java JavaScript Python	any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no	no
Triggers	yes	Using read-only observers	no	yes Timer and event based
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	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	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes using MemoryDB	no
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	yes using Azure authentication	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Lovefield	Microsoft Azure AI Search	Yanza
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