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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.openpie.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

origodb.com/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

OpenPie

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2010

Current release

4.4, October 2021

2.1, January 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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