DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

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

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

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Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

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

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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 managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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