DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Rdb

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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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.hawkular.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Community supported by Red Hat

Amazon Web Services

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2021

1984

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentication via encrypted signatures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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