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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Newts vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

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Name	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	Newts  Xexclude from comparison	STSdb  Xexclude from comparison	TimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
Description	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra	Key-Value Store with special method for indexing optimized for high performance using a special indexing method	In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #375   Overall #41   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.10 Rank #357   Overall #51   Key-value stores	Score 1.36 Rank #161   Overall #75   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	opennms.github.io/­newts	github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	github.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki		docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	OpenNMS Group	STS Soft SC	Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release	2016	2014	2011	1998
Current release			4.0.8, September 2015	11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source GPLv2, commercial license available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C#
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux OS X Windows	Windows	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes primitive types and user defined types (classes)	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
Secondary indexes	yes	no	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST Java API	.NET Client API	JDBC ODBC ODP.NET Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages	C Java Perl Python R	Java	C# Java	C C++ Java PL/SQL
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no	PL/SQL
Triggers	yes	no	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding based on Cassandra	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	none	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication
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	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra		Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes by means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no		yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	Newts	STSdb	TimesTen
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