DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RocksDB 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

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.hawkular.org

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Amazon

Community supported by Red Hat

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2013

2018

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

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

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

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

Journaling Streams

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Role-based access control

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