DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison	Trafodion  Xexclude from comparison	VelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
			Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData	Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS	A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #337   Overall #30   Time Series DBMS		Score 0.11 Rank #354   Overall #37   Graph DBMS #15   Object oriented DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	machbase.com	trafodion.apache.org	velocitydb.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	machbase.com/­dbms	trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html	velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Machbase	Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP	VelocityDB Inc
Initial release	2016	2013	2014	2011
Current release		V8.0, August 2023	2.3.0, February 2019	7.x
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free test version available	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C	C++, Java	C#
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux macOS Windows	Linux	Any that supports .NET
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	SQL-like query language	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	gRPC HTTP REST JDBC MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.Net
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript PHP via ODBC Python R via ODBC Scala	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net	.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	Java Stored Procedures	no
Triggers	yes	no	no	Callbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding	Sharding	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	selectable replication factor	yes, via HBase
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes via user defined functions and HBase	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	no	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes volatile and lookup table	no	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	simple password-based access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Based on Windows Authentication
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux	Trafodion	VelocityDB
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