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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#247  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score1.21
Rank#182  Overall
#83  Relational DBMS
Score2.08
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#366  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaltibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAlibabaAltibaseAmazonCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release2016199920122014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesANSI SQL-92nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesstored procedures and stored functionsnono
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesno
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDBAltibaseAmazon CloudSearchHawkular Metrics
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