DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kdb

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

High performance Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

kx.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

code.kx.com

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Initial release

2016

2010

2016

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free 32-bit version

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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