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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2005

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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