DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Geode vs. MarkLogic vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Geode vs. MarkLogic vs. SQLite

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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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

geode.apache.org

www.marklogic.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.marklogic.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

MarkLogic Corp.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2012

2002

2001

2000

Current release

1.1, February 2017

11.0, December 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights per client and object definable

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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