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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Pinecone vs. STSdb vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Pinecone vs. STSdb vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA managed, cloud-native vector databaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupPinecone Systems, IncSTS Soft SCAlex KashirinVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20162019201120202010
Current release4.0.8, September 20150.5, April 202111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#C++Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedWindowsLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
PythonC#
Java
C++C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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