DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Google BigQuery vs. Greenplum vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

cloud.google.com/bigquery

greenplum.org

trino.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.greenplum.org

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2015

2010

2005

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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