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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. MaxDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. MaxDB vs. SwayDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 dataA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
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Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Simer Plaha
Initial release20162012201219842018
Current release29.0.1, April 20247.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL for queryingyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
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-basednonenone
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 enginesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDAtomic execution of operations
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 systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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