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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	SiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison	SwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data	An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store
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 0.06 Rank #383   Overall #43   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.04 Rank #387   Overall #61   Key-value stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	google.github.io/­lovefield	github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere	swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Google	SiteWhere	Simer Plaha
Initial release	2016	2014	2010	2018
Current release		2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0	Open Source GNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		JavaScript	Java	Scala
Server operating systems	hosted	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	predefined scheme	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	no	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	no	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC		HTTP REST
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	JavaScript		Java Kotlin Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no		no
Triggers	yes	Using read-only observers		no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding based on HBase	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	selectable replication factor based on HBase	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	Atomic execution of operations
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	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	Users with fine-grained authorization concept	no
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Lovefield	SiteWhere	SwayDB
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