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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpostgis.netgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpostgis.net/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupMicrosoftByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2016201520052016
Current releaseV13.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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