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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Rank	#215	Overall
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Score	1.18
Rank	#157	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/35387.htm

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

Current release

2.2.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Hash and Range Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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