DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Journaling Streams

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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