DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

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

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Manticore Software

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2016

1999

2012

2017

1984

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

6.0, February 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

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