DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Ingres

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

2.1, December 2018

7.2.4, September 2012

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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