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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsCommunity supported by Red HatHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release20162012201220142016
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL for queryingnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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